I'm just mentioning this since this question seems to come up once in a while. I personally doesn't feel the solution described below is good, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
It is possible to use the Multi Library plugin to define a virtual library that does something similar to this. You can define the library by using the "Download more libraries" link in the Multi Library plugin web interface and choose the "Best format library" type. The virtual library will detect a flac/mp3 track to be the same if they have the same: track title, album title and track number. The disadvantages with this solution is at least the following: 1. If there is an album that consist of some tracks in mp3 format, some tracks in flac format and some tracks in both format, the result will be that you get two albums in the SlimServer interface. One album with all the flac files and one album with all the mp3 files which don't have flac counterpart. If both the flac and mp3 files for a specific album is in the same directory I don't think you will have this problem. 2. You will have to use Custom Browse for all the browse menus, the standard SlimServer browse menus will contain the mp3 files you don't want. 3. Saved playlists will play the files they refer to, so if you have refered to a mp3 file it will be played even if there is a corresponding flac file. If you would rather skip these mp3's than play them, you can use the Custom Skip plugin to do this. 4. Random playlists using the standard Random Mix plugin will play mp3 files even if you have a corresponding flac file. You can avoid this by using the SQL Playlist plugin instead. If you like to use the standard Random Mix and would like skip these mp3's instead of playing them, you can use the Custom Skip plugin to do this. I don't think you should hope that this ever will be standard SlimServer functionality. There are just to many different things that can go wrong depending on how your files are arranged and tagged, so I think it would just cause a gigantic support headache. Due to this I suspect that Logitech would like to avoid going this route. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37176 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
