I have recently added an account to my home. That account has no music library of its own. It is allowed to share my music library and one from a friend.
When using Plexamp and looking at an artist in my library, I will occasionally see a section near the bottom of the artist screen titled “More Albums by Artist” and see albums on the friend’s server that I do not have. That is nice.
My home member doesn’t see that. They can switch between libraries and everything works that way, but they don’t see the sort-of-combined data.
The only setting I can find regarding this is in the configuration of my Music library, an “Include related content from shared libraries” setting. My home user doesn’t have a Music library so doesn’t have that screen. Is there another way to set that option on that account so that they can get the same behavior I do?
Sorry, home accounts don’t have access to music you have access to (permissions don’t work like that transitively). Think of it like this—if I shared my server with you, wouldn’t it be weird if you could sub-share my server and I started seeing all these unknown people streaming?
Thanks for taking the time to look at my note. I didn’t explain myself well. The home user is not a managed account. It is a separately created account with its own email address. The additional music library owner explicitly granted access to it. I then added the account to my home. The account can switch back and forth between viewing both shared libraries. However, if it looks at one library’s entry for Artist A, it doesn’t see any entries in “More albums by Artist A” even if there are some in the other library. They have to manually select the other library and search there to find them.
Maybe since it’s in my home the expectation is that it won’t have access to other music libraries, but it does. I suppose I could buy an additional PlexPass for my spouse so they could use Plexamp and remove the account from my home, but that seems a little overkill for an account that is likely to only be a read-only one. I was hoping there was a setting like the one in the Music library Edit menu (Advanced tab) to include related content from shared libraries. The home user doesn’t have that menu available to them though because they don’t have a Music library.
I haven’t tested it, but I wonder what happens if a new regular account (not part of a home) has been given access to two shared music libraries, but doesn’t have one of their own. How do they set “Include related content from shared libraries” if they don’t have a music library?
The server is the one who computes the “extended” entries from shared servers. The server credentials give it access to servers which have been shared with the user.
The server doesn’t have a priori access to all servers which its clients do. In this case there is overlap, but it has no way of knowing that, nor does it have the right credentials for access in this case (your other user’s access rights to that server).
Does that make any sense? I know it seems like it should just work, but it’s trickier than you might imagine.
Thanks for the follow-up note. I think I understand now. The key bit was learning that the “related content from shared libraries” is created by the Music server and not the client. If it works that way I can then understand why only clients logged in as the same user as the server get that information.
Thanks again for taking the time to walk me through this.
