I see we're back onto comparing files together, rather than comparing the actual songs. Whether those songs are encoded as FLAC, OGG or any other format, and whether they have slight volume differences between the CDs they're ripped from, is totally moot. Yes one track may sound better for whatever reason and this would be the one to keep, but there would be no need to keep the others. That is, unless they're different versions of the same song; say Michael Jackson decided to re-release *Beat It* by using trumpets rather than drums.
I still can't see where all these references to comparing, say FLAC files together, to see if they're the same has come in. A checksum of a copy of a song off one album, is very unlikely to match a copy of the _same_ song off another one, due to volume diffs, length of entry and exit silences, etc. But the songs are the same. So why have all these duplicate songs taking up valuable HDD space? Pick the best & bin the rest leaving a marker where the duplicates used to be to keep the database integrity intact. But hey, if people can afford to have lots and lots of HDD space then they wouldn't be bothered by an idea like this ;) Anyway I'll leave it there. -- CavesOfTQLT _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
