No, it's actually pretty easy to do what you want. However it sounds
like your file organization is a mess, and you probably need to
rearrange things to get them to work the way you want with SBS. For the
most part SBS doesn't care about your file/folder structure, but if you
insist on using 'browse music folder' then you'll have to have it
organized.

1) forget about iTunes integration with SBS. You can keep using iTunes
if you like, just think of it as separate from SBS.

2) put all your lossless files that iTunes can't handle (FLAC or
24-bit) in one branch of the tree, eg,
/music/lossless/[artists]/[albums] or
/music/lossless/24-bit/[artists]/[albums] and
/music/lossless/16-bit/[artists]/[albums] (NB: I'm using OSX or Linux
style pathnames here, so if you're on Windows just adapt them.)

3) put all the things you have only in lossy (eg, MP3) format in a
different branch, at the same level, such as
/music/lossy/[artists]/[albums]

4) if you have any copies of the things in (2) that have been
transcoded so that iTunes can handle them, put them in a another branch
at the same level, such as /music/iTunes/[artists]/[albums]

If you're on OSX or Linux, put a symbolic link in /music/lossless that
points to (3), and put another one in /music/iTunes that points to (3).
If you're on Windows, use Windows shortcuts to the folders instead of
symlinks. Then point SBS to /music/lossless and point iTunes to
/music/iTunes. You should be able to see your entire library in either
program, be able to tell lossless/lossy and bit-depth, etc. without
memorizing anything.


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