tcutting;617485 Wrote: > A common approach to the mixed MP3 and FLAC libraries is to keep them > separate. > Create a FLAC directory. Create an MP3 directory for files which do > not exist as FLAC. You can point SBS to one of these directories, and > place a link to the second (or create a "shell" directory to the two > others). Finally, use a transcoding tool to create second MP3 > directory for those files which exist as FLAC which SBS does NOT see. > That way, you have all files available as MP3, but SBS only "sees" the > best format available. It does mean that if you replace an MP3 file > with a FLAC file, you would remove the MP3 file from the directory SBS > sees.
aubuti;617487 Wrote: > Putting lossless and lossy copies of the same tracks together is not a > good idea with SBS, because SBS has no straightforward way of choosing > between the different copies. My approach to this is to keep lossless > and lossy in completely separate branches of the directory tree. I have > three main folders, which can be summarized as: > > /music/home [contains all my lossless tracks] > /music/mobile [contains MP3 copies of the lossless tracks] > /music/common_mp3 [contains tracks I have _only_ in MP3] > > Then I have symlinks in /music/home and /music/mobile that each point > to /music/common_mp3. That way every track is included once, and only > once, if I point at either the lossless or the lossy branch. I use the > 'home' for home use and the 'mobile' for my laptop and portable > players. In Windows you would use shortcuts instead of symlinks. > > As for single FLAC files, that is indeed overcomplicating your life. > FLAC playback with SBS is gapless and has been for a long time. Some > people swear by single FLAC files and cue sheets, and I imagine they > work fine, but you don't need them. Too bad that the tinySC of the Touch cannot (for now) be set to scan from a particular directory, unlike bigSC of the squeezeserver. For now, my usb disk cannot be allowed to contain the lower-quality format mp3 transcoded versions that I use with iPods and in my car... -- braslau ------------------------------------------------------------------------ braslau's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45025 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86240 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
