On 11/8/05, oreillymj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to remove a > lot of the duplicate tracks in my collection and only have 1 copy of > each file. But I'd also like to have a virtual copy of certain tracks > in my collection. > I know I can achieve kind of what I want with playlists, but not > exactly. > > e.g > I have 4 U2 albums with all tracks ripped to my library. > I also have U2 greatest hit which replicate most of what's on the 4 > albums. > > I'd like to only rip the new tracks off the greatest hits, but have > pointers to all the other tracks using the existing tracks off the 4 > albums. So when I view the U2 greatest hits in the UI, I'd like to see > all the songs that are on the CD case whether they exist as real files > or not, becuase those songs exist somewhere in my collection.
I thought about doing this in Linux with symlinks, but then I realized the file tags would be all wrong. Like, the album name would be tagged incorrectly, and most likely so would the track numbers of the individual songs. I suppose you could use file and folder naming and have it guess that info, but even then you'd be out of luck with more sophisticated tags. However, if that's good enough for you to have Slimserver guess based on directory placement, you might want to check the XP Resource Kit for a tool called fsutil (assuming you have Windows XP and the hard drive is formatted with NTFS) and use that to make hardlinks of those files. The syntax would be like: fsutil hardlink create "c:\artistname\albumname\04-Song Name.mp3" "c:\artist\Greatest Hits\01-Song Name.mp3" I'm not sure what Slimserver does with hardlinks in Windows (I don't run Slimsever on my Windows machine anymore), but it might work. In my experience, apps have no idea that hardlinks aren't completely separate files. It could be worth a try. If anyone has any suggestion about file tagging using linked files (maybe cue sheets would work a bit better), I'd love to hear it, but I'm not holding out much hope for that. -Steve _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
