FTJoe;218241 Wrote: > Yes - that's exactly what I mean. I was suggesting it because the mix > of WAV and MP3s I have are maintained in my Itunes library, I can copy > them out to a single fodler and then just convert the whole thing to > flac. Space is cheap on my array and I really don't want this copy to > be another library I have to maintain. I guess I could convert just the > WAV files and keep the MP3s intact in the separate folder but it seemed, > messy. i need the Itunes folder because there are many Ipod devices > about the house. When you have ripped your music into MP3 you lost some information due to the lossy compression of the MP3 format. The lost information will not be possible to get back by converting the MP3 to some other format. The converted FLAC files will not sound any better than the original MP3 files. So you will not get any advantage with converting the MP3 files to FLAC, the FLAC files will just be larger but won't sound any better than the previous MP3 files. SlimServer will not work any better if the files are in FLAC format compared to MP3 format. It will just be confusing to have some FLAC files which isn't an original rip and sound poorer than other FLAC files that have been ripped directly from CD. Having some files as MP3's feels better to me because that would give you an indication if its sound quality is good or bad.
If you rip the CD's again and this time directly into FLAC, you would get back the lost sound information and would get some the advantages with the FLAC format. The WAV files is worth converting to FLAC if you like to put tags in them, for example tag which artist, album, genre a track belongs to. The conversion could be done automatically, but you would have to tag each file manually. If you have the artist, album information as part of the directory structure, many tagging applications can generate tags based on the directory structure. My suggestion would be that you convert the WAV files and put them in the FLAC directory. The MP3 files you like to use in SlimServer, you just copy to a suitable directory as they are. If this directory isn't below your FLAC directory, just create a shortcut somewhere inside the FLAC directory that points to the MP3 directory. This will get SlimServer to pickup both the FLAC files and the MP3 files. -- 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
