Yeah, this is a tricky idea. Perhaps your example of Beat It is correct, but I have three copies of "Billy Jean" - 2 by him - one was the original demo and one was the finished copy - and one by someone else completely.
If you ask the software to consider as duplicates all copies of Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, then you might end up with the demo version you don't like (or maybe you do). The point is, ID3 tags alone won't detect duplicates well, especially since the definition of duplicate is so subjective. I have several copies of Road Runner, by Bo Diddly, live, studio, recorded with someone else, etc. Lots of Clapton like that too. It's hard to assume they'll be tagged differently. It's true there are some tracks, especially on compilation albums, that are pretty much the same to my ears, but I think it would be non-trivial to reliably make the same determination by computer that our ears would make. At a guess, I think this would be the job for a program outside of SlimServer, one that would perhaps leave a file system in place as you described, that SlimServer would navigate properly. But the computation involved, if you could come up with an algorithm, would be massive and not appropriate for a server that also has to service hardware in real time. IMHO. Michael -- Michaelwagner _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
