Caves, I'm with you. I can't see why there's any desire to have 3 FLAC copies of the same song off 3 different compilations either. If you chose 1 as 'best' of the 3, why would you care if you had the other two as long as the albums the came from played correctly including that song? An interface of choosing 1 or more of the duplicates to remain, and replacing all the others with a pointer file which includes the tagging from the original song, and a pointer to the copy of the file you wish to keep seems like a completely valid thing to do.
"Jim" above is way off saying >Don't just use FLAC because the assumption bigger=better or because >these "audiophile" people all do it. If the statement you wrote above >is correct then clearly FLAC is not for you, and you'd be wasting disk >space using it. FLAC is an uncompressed, lossless codec. That's it. Why would someone want to give up FLAC just because the have the same studio version of "Manic Monday" (or whatever) on the original album and again on a "Best of the 80s" disk and don't care to have both taking up space? I'd like to hear why it's a waste of disk space to use it and then delete all the true dups (not different artists, not different arrangements. Just different CDs?). There's a few reasons why 'not' to use FLAC. What is the reason to use FLAC? I understand some of the comments above about how this might not be a high priority thing for slimserver developers to work on. It might not even be that useful for many people as they wouldn't have many duplicates. The idea itself is not flawed though. On 5/2/05, CavesOfTQLT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, a quick reply to your post before I go. In cases like this > where you've got slightly different versions of a song but they're all > tagged the same, then I did mention in one of my posts above that you > could listen to each 'duplicate' and decide which to keep and which to > 'delete'. > > Anyway, it's getting to the point now where I wish I'd never brought up > the suggestion. > > > -- > 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
