pippin wrote: > Yes, libraries and browse modes work with the current version of iPeng > 7, but that's not what Hans Heintz is looking for above. > He doesn't want to separate his libraries but he has one library and > some tracks are duplicates in different file formats and in that case he > only wants to play the tracks in the higher definition format. > > I do kind of understand that use case. I, too, have a lot of albums > which are _only_ mp3 or _only_ flac and the last thing I'd want is a > library that shows only one or the other, that's a usability nightmare, > when I want to listen to music I want to listen to certain music, not a > certain file format. I'd still prefer to use the better format in these > cases where I have more than one. > > So the use case makes a lot of sense IMHO, it's just not something a > controller App should do in a Squeezebox system, the server should do > this, it potentially creates too much load (on the server side) if iPeng > did this. > > I never understood these "separate libraries by file format" use cases. > Separate libraries for me should only be about things that are really > different (like music and podcasts or audiobooks, or children's and > adult music) and which you don't want to mix. If you keep a complete > duplicate library in mp3 and flac then I see no real reason to manage > the mp3 side of this in LMS. So I don't think library separation > functionality will help here.
OK i get what your after . You choose the music as usuall and some sort of plugin should be aware of that this player (remote iPeng or whatever ) should have the mp3 version of this album . And the plugin should also hide the double file count so that you dont see every track and album twice . Good idea , I see some problems deciding whats really a duplicate in another format ,tag schemes are not exactly compatible etc maybe a developer would see it as a challange ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
