[Request]: Consider liked albums when syncing favorites

[provokateurin]

Description

I have a lot of liked albums, but rarely have any of the songs as liked. This way ListenBrainz doesn't see most of my favorite music.

Proposed solution

When the favorite is synced, the like status of the song as well as the like status of the album should be considered.

Additional context

No response

[UltimateRiff]

related, there's a ListenBrainz ticket for liking albums too

https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-1547

in the mean time, I think this could be a temporary solution, but should prolly be an option a user can turn on

edit, just saw the PR discussion that came to the same conclusion, lol

[provokateurin]

Fixing it in ListenBrainz would definitely be the better option 👍

[lyarenei]

I'm currently looking into this, but I am actually not sure how to approach this in terms of Jellyfin DB.

My first thought was to make the favorites virtual, and effectively only applicable for ListenBrainz. The problem I see with this approach is that the user might get confused as to why the favorites in Jellyfin do not match loved tracks in ListenBrainz (assuming full sync has been done).

So, to addesss that, the plugin could mark the favorites in Jellyfin as well - favoriting an album would favorite all tracks in it in the Jellyfin DB and then all these favorited tracks are synced to ListenBrainz. However, this is not really a ListenBrainz feature, so technically, this is out of scope for this plugin.

Adding ListenBrainz support for favorite albums would be the best solution indeed, but looking at the ticket, I don't see it happening anytime soon.