Library structure is a hard question. My experience is similiar:
I also do FLAC for local Squeezeboxes and MP3 (for the gym iPod). If
you're on UNIX, you could also work up some find + sort + grep magic to
delete old MP3 versions of FLAC encoded tracks if the FLAC and MP3 files
have the same filename.
In Linux/BSD/Mac OSX/UNIX the find and cp commands can make this easy
(recursively link/copy the entire directory with your choice of file
extensions, eg .flac+.jpg and .mp3+.jpg). In Windows ROBOCOPY can do
something similar instead of find. Maybe even XCOPY would work.
That said, it's probably most practical to reorganize your collection
unless you really want to hack SlimServer.
Within my SlimServer audiodir I have
- */flac:* encoded CDs using hierarchy similiar to your own
- */pool:* tracks of unknown pedigree, mostly MP3
- */itunes:* AAC stuff, some unplayable using SB3
In my case, each of these is really a symlink to where the files really
live (Windows can also do this using junctions, eg NTFSLink).
The MP3s transcoded from FLAC are in another directory outside the
SlimServer audiodir using identical directory structure to the FLAC
originals. It's easy to merge FLAC and MP3 files to replicate your
current layout if you must have things arranged as you do now: just
copy one on top of the other, or better yet, just symlinks.
No one best way to do this, but hopefully this helps.
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