Having encoded most of my CDs onto HDD, and after running my own Slimserver & Softsqueeze trial, I know that this whole idea of streaming music to different rooms is going to be really worthwhile and I look forward to getting my first Squeezebox2 soon.
Since starting the trial the one thing I've noticed is the amount of duplicate tracks I've got, in some cases I've got six copies of the same track due to them being on different albums, and they're all taking up space that could be used for five other different tracks. Now this ain't too bad with small file sizes like mp3, but now I'm encoding my CDs in FLAC, these dupes take up a lot of space. Wouldn't it be great if you could have just one copy of the track stored on your server, and the Slimserver software just references to that track in each album where it should be. I'm thinking along the lines of a scenario where you click on 'Wipe Cache', the Slimserver rebuilds the database, and you then get a tab called 'Duplicates', possibly under server settings, and this lists all the duplicate tracks. You then play each copy (if you wanted to, that is) and choose the best one, and the other copies would be taken out of your library and put into a 'deleted' bin just in case of any problem later. The Slimserver would then put a small track descriptor reference file in the location where the track was removed so that the 'track' would appear in any album scroll, etc., and if you press play on that 'track' then it plays the track as normal. Once you're happy that everything is running okay, you'd then delete the duplicate tracks in the 'deleted' bin permanently. I don't know whether something like this could be done, but I thought I'd mention it as a possible streamlining idea for the future. -- CavesOfTQLT _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
