... no, not the normalization of the sound in files :) My situation is I have a large library, mostly high quality mp3s, lots of ogg rips, and lots of flac rips. All the music is properly tagged via musicbrainz.
What happens is I point RB at my music directory and I get lots of duplicates. Also, I'll get some of them lossless and some mp3, and while I want the mp3s to move over to my mp3 player, I'd like the flac in preference to mp3 while listening at my desktop. So my idea is basically have a plugin or system that will hide music that it finds dupes of and will automatically choose the highest quality where available. Dupes would be defined by I suppose either exact same id3 tags for track, artist, album and track number or filename without extension. "Highest quality" would be defined by a set precidence (flac > ogg > mp3 > wmv > mp2 or something like that) and if it found multiple copies of the same filename, chose the highest bitrate (where of course vbr > cbr). I vaugly recall a 'find dupes' plugin around, but I'm not sure if it was for RB or banshee, and if it did something like this where users would still be able to control their entire library, just be selective in what is shown in the library window in RB. Also, with this sort of ability you could reverse the filter so when I load up songs for my aging little 256mb mp3 player, I can choose the lowest / smallest filesize. I'm not sure if this'd be interesting to anyone but me though, as I am apparently the last person in the world not to have an iPod :( Anyway, does this sound useful at all to anyone? Thoughts, ideas? -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." -- Unknown _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
