Smiley Dan Wrote: > Funnily enough I want a similar thing. Where multiple copies of a song > are stored, SlimServer should see only the highest quality (in my case, > FLAC). > > I may have multiple copies where I want to synchronise my library with > a portable player, for instance transcode to OGG and put on the > portable device. > > Given my slimserver mounts the music via NFS I could do something > smart... or if it mounted a samba share I could do a bit of VFS > jazz.... but I'm interested how other people have done this. I don't see how, nor why this should be done.
How does SlimServer determine that two different files are the "same song"? For instance, I have as many as three masterings and releases of some albums in my library. All are in Flac format. Same album name, same track names, sometimes they differ in length by a couple seconds, sometimes they're the same, and some releases of albums will have additional tracks. I want each of these versions to remain in the library and be selectable. I don't want SlimServer saying version #1 or #2 or #3 is going to be played whenever I say play album version #2. You have the same thing when you have a Flac version, plus an mp3 version of a track. Unless you put them in the same folder, or used some other mechanism to _explicitly_ tell SlimServer they're from the same album, how in the world can it know? What I'd do if I kept a parallel mp3 or ogg library is simply keep that directory tree outside of the designated SlimServer music folder. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24861 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
