I haven't tried it but to some extent, you should be able to set the "Multiple Items in Tags" parameter to say "/" and put several album names in one album name field. The only (big) problem that I can see is that, unless you are lucky, the track number will be wrong for all but one of the albums. Compilation albums will probably be OK though - if you're not hung up about play order.
Also, you'll probably have a big job going through the tracks looking for subtle errors/differences in the names of the tracks - particularly if you'd relied on automatic CDDB tagging. Now that there is an SQL database and a published schema you can do an SQL "select distinct" to produce a list of supposedly unique tracks. I tried it with my collection and then manually looked through the list looking for errors/inconsistencies; it's taken me a long time to get the naming (and years) consistent. Have a look at how many are different in your collection. Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CavesOfTQLT Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [slim] Re: Removing duplicate tracks Jim Dibb Wrote: > That's a great idea! Cheers Jim. I just don't see the reason to have multiple copies of the same thing on your server, unless you're happy to show off to someone that you've got 10000 'tracks' when you've actually only got 8000 ;) [That's a joke BTW] Hey maybe the Slimserver team could lead the way on this idea, because I don't think anybody else has thought about it ... yet ;) -- CavesOfTQLT _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
