All your music files need to be in one directory. See pic of my office setup (note my files are all in E:\All Music Files (p.s. at work I'm using the beta of 7.7.0 which is called Logitech Media Server instead of SbS, but your SbS > Settings should look almost the same, without the check boxes for video, etc.)
Of course, underneath this high level directory I have other subdirectories. In my case, I have: E:\All Music Files\FLAC\ and E:\All Music Files\mp3_aac_ONLY\ And under each of these subdirectories, I have \Artist\Album\tracks.... So you could rip your FLAC files to the FLAC directory and your mp3 files to the mp3 directory. They will all show up in the SbS music library (that is, once they are in the right directory, you'll still need to do a "scan for new and changed" or a "clear and rescan" for SbS to "find" the files). There is a multilibrary plugin, but you probably should get all the basics working first before you try that. There are a couple of options for playing ONLY your flac files. Under "my music" you can use browse music folder option, and you can browse to the FLAC subdirectory and play songs/albums from there. Or, you could edit the "genres" of the tracks and add something like "Art's Rock" "Art's Jazz" etc. as the genres. But again, for now, you probably need to get comfortable with a good ripping routine, figure out tagging, etc. and how to make sure the files are organized so that SbS sees your library. -- garym System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10) > SbS 7.6.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) System 2: Win7(64) laptop > SbS 7.6.1 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.6 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90180 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
