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app:song:update

Change a song's metadata, or lock and unlock its fields. The command does what PATCH /api/songs/{publicId} does when an administrator edits a song in the web app's metadata panel, through the same use case and with the same lock rules.

Quick start

make exec cmd="php bin/console app:song:update V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT --title='Come Together' --track=1"

Mark a song as not explicit and lock the flag:

make exec cmd="php bin/console app:song:update V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT --no-explicit"
make exec cmd="php bin/console app:song:update V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT --lock=explicit"

Arguments

Argument Required Description
public-id Yes The public ID of the song

Options

Option Description
--title=TITLE The new title; it cannot be empty
--track=NUMBER The new track number, as an integer
--disc=NUMBER The new disc number, as an integer
--year=YEAR The new year, as an integer
--comment=TEXT The new comment
--lyrics=TEXT The new lyrics
--explicit, --no-explicit Mark the song explicit, or not explicit
--lock=FIELD Lock a field. Repeat the option or separate fields with commas
--unlock=FIELD Unlock a field. Repeat the option or separate fields with commas
--json Print only the result, as the API's data payload, in JSON

Details

An option that is left out keeps its current value; neither the command nor the API can clear a field.

The lockable fields are title, track, disc, year, comment, lyrics and explicit. A locked field keeps its value, and an edit that changes it is rejected with Field "title" is locked and cannot be updated. (the API answers 422 with the same message). An unknown field name in --lock or --unlock is rejected the same way.

Unlocks apply before the edit and locks after it, so one run can unlock a field and change it, or change a field and lock it. A field that was already locked rejects the change. When any change is rejected, nothing is saved.

The API takes the complete list of locked fields in lockedFields, replacing the current list. The command changes single fields instead and leaves the others as they are.

With --json the command prints only the updated song as the API's data object, including its artist and album names and its lockedFields.

Exit codes

Code Meaning
0 Song updated
1 No song has the public ID, or another error occurred; the message says why
2 The public ID is malformed, a value was rejected, a lock names an unknown field, or the edit changes a locked field