This looks good - thank you!

Last commit was over 15 months ago.


On Monday, 26 September 2016 23:16:29 UTC+1, Adrian Sampson wrote:
>
> There’s an “alternatives” 3rd-party plugin that has that goal, more or 
> less:
> https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives
>
> I’m not sure it’s being maintained, but if not, maybe it would be time to 
> bring this into the beets core repository!
>
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Patrick Heneghan <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Can beets keep duplicates of tracks in multiple formats?
>
> I've searched this mailing list, and the repo, for related posts, but they 
> haven't been updated in a while, so I wanted to check if there had been any 
> further developments.
>
> I'd like to be able to keep multiple formats if possible. For example, I'm 
> planning to host all my music on a remote server at some point, but only in 
> mp3 format (to save on space). So I would keep both flacs and mp3s at home 
> on my hard drive, but sync only the mp3s to my remote server to save on 
> storage space (with ampache or subsonic in front).
>
> Could I use the 'convert' plugin to help with this? I notice this plugin 
> wants to put my converted files (or the originals) into a completely 
> separated directory, but it kinda makes more sense to me to have both 
> formats side by side in the same album directory.
>
> As such, I have my paths config set like this:
>
> ```
> paths:
>   default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$format/$track $title
> ```
>
> I suppose if there's really no way to have both sets of files in the same 
> album directory, then I could have them as two separate trees... but then, 
> would I be able to still use beets to update metadata on both trees? It 
> seems only one file (the original or the conversion) stays in the beets 
> collection. I'd like beets to manage both, if possible...
>
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