Concerning duplicate tracks; if I've got R.E.M's Everybody Hurts* on one of their albums, and I've also got the _same_ track on a compilation, and _another_ on another compilation, that's three copies taking up space, whether that space is valuable or not. Surely it would be easy in this day and age of HDD to have just the _one_ copy and to add a small reference 'track' file to each of the albums where the track was removed. That way Slimserver would know that a particular track should be present in an album, and the reference file would point to where the track is actually located, in order to play it, or even to reconstruct the album if this was needed.
The only other way I can think of is to have just a single copy of every track, and to use the 'Album' tag to reference every album that track should be in. But then my preferred format of saving all R.E.M's albums in one folder, all Coldplay's albums in another folder etc., wouldn't be possible. Plus it would be a tagging nightmare. *Obviously if another artist/s did a version of R.E.M's Everybody Hurts, such as The Corrs, then that copy would remain because it is different, as would an instrumental version be if R.E.M decided to do one. -- CavesOfTQLT _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
