donmacn wrote: 
> Thanks guys for these suggestions. 
> 
> I think this parent/sub-folder option does sound like a good compromise
> between ease, function and technicality.
> 
> I guess I could also ‘copy’ MP3 versions of duplicate artists (those
> that might show up in both kids and adult libraries) into this ..
> \music\flac\lossyonly\artist\album.. sub-folder? Or would that be taking
> things too far and end up confusing the LMS scanning?
> 
> By that I mean: Let’s say ‘Coldplay’ is an artist in my original
> VB\music\flac\…   library, but is also favoured by the kids. If I
> dropped MP3 versions of the ‘Coldplay’ albums into the kids'
> VB\music\flac\lossyonly\artist\album sub-folder, then I’m assuming these
> versions would show up somehow as duplicates when LMS scanned the parent
> and sub-folders??
> 
> The same question could apply to genres. If I had tagged Coldplay ‘FLAC’
> files under the ‘pop’ genre, or whatever, and then re-ripped it and
> tagged it with ‘kids’ genre, would I end up with confusing duplicates??
> 
> 
> Hope that makes sense? 
> 
> Ta

I don't think you need to be too complicated here.  You could leave
"your" titles that are also of interest to the kids where they are, and
have the dedicated sub-directory for their own music.  Just add the
relevant genre tag to your titles and they will show up for the kids. 
If there aren't too many of these, shouldn't be too hard to manage a
transfer to some other location, and avoids the issue of duplicates. 
The kids cold just learn how to genre-tag these titles themselves, so
they can pick and choose.

R.



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