I would ask the question how does the system know that the multiple sets are different except for the bit-rate or encoding? There are lots of things that seem obvious but that when you try to code them become absolutely horrendous.
Bearing in mind the SC deals in tracks and it is the tags and disk structure that allow it to 'understand' albums. So if you have the same track in two different directories with identical tags but encoded differently (different bit rates or codec) are they the same track musically or are they different but just happen to have the same tags. Whilst you might say that that could never happen then consider that there are no official tags for any track just what you put on there yourself, perhaps with the help of an online source. So any user might choose to accidentally make identical tags. Also consider a scenario where an album is updated, perhaps with remix, but is otherwise identical to the old one then it might get identical tags. What happens if you have different album art in the two directories, does this make the two tracks different? What about if in one directory you have an additional track does that make the two original tracks different? Now one can easily say "of course it does" to any of the questions but can everyone say the same thing. One only looks at it from the point of view of one's only library. Whilst it might be possible to do complex analysis of the tracks to try to guess if they are similar musically you have two problems, one of speed and processing power and secondly which one does it choose to display and play. I can envisage situations where two tracks are determined to be identical but aren't and you can't every get one of them to play. I seem to recall this has been discussed before and one solution was that if two identically tagged tracks (differing only by codec/bit-rate) are in the same directory then they could be considered to be the same track thus allowing the system to choose the most appropriate to play to a given device. Though I'm sure that there are some ripping/management apps that might un-intentially create that situation for different tracks. However, that wouldn't work in the OP's situation because he wishes to maintain an existing directory structure. In the OP's case perhaps he should look at the custom library plugins then create some bespoke tags in the files. The the individual devices can look at a tailored bespoke library. -- Zaragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74288 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
