>I don't know what the best way to tag the FLAC files is, however. My >feeling is that overriding GENRE is not the most elegant solution -- but >it might turn out to work for many applications. > I don't like it, but I thought it was the only way to prevent them from being selected for a random mix.
>Perhaps a new tag would be in order. I've currently set a new tag >called SPDIF_ONLY in parts of my collection, with values like "Dolby >Digital" and "DTS"; I don't think that's particularly obvious either. >Maybe better would be something which explicitly forbade analogue >outputs (NO_ANALOGUE?). It might be worth opening a discussion in the >ripping/tagging forum, come to think of it. > I thought it might be possible to detect based on the encoding, rather than add a new tag. Eg. can anything be determined by looking at the bit rate? Otherwise adding a new tag would seem the logical thing to do. I have created a new folder specifically to hold for multi-stream encoded files, and set a symbolic link in the SlimServer music folder. Therefore I can identify the files that only play through digital out by browsing that folder. However, there's currently no way of configuring each folder such that files are not also added to the music DB, so the files could still be selected through a random mix and not be pleasant when listening via analog output. I have two SB's - an SB2 in the lounge and an older SBG in the bedroom. If I tried to play a multi-stream flac file and the two devices were synchronised (SBG with a bit limit), what would happen? I'm assuming slimserver would try to transcode to .mp3 - would this work? Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
