Hi! A while back I filed an issue for such a use case, at least if I understand it correctly: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/1640
The core concept is still rather important to me, since I do have FLAC and OGG Vorbis in my collection and it's only going to get more convoluted with having both instances of an album as duplicates in there. My plan was to start looking into this over the coming weeks, but I wanted to let the python3 and click efforts cool down a bit and not add another big rework into the current process :) Grs, Heinz On Monday, 26 September 2016 16:00:44 CEST Patrick Heneghan wrote: > 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... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
