damcknight;537147 Wrote: > Band width is not a problem, since I have my Squeezebox wired into the > network. I would prefer to listen to my music in a loss-less format > which is why I am using flac, but I also need mp3 versions of > everything to use in itunes and sync to my ipod. Hence 2 copies of > everything, except for the things that I bought on itunes. > > It sounds like either using the Multi Library plugin or Virtual Machine > are my best bet for now. I am really surprised by how little support > there is for multiple libraries, not just for the Squeezebox but for > itunes and digital media players in general. It seems like such a > basic feature. I read somewhere that this feature may come in > Squeezebox Server version 8. If you only want the MP3s for your iTunes and iPod, then why should SBS ever need to see them? Put the FLACs in one branch of your directory tree and the MP3s in a separate, parallel branch of the tree. Then point SBS to the FLAC branch and point iThings to the MP3 branch. For example, mine looks like this, and works great:
/music/home/.... [contains all my FLACs for home use] /music/mobile/... [is the MP3 copies of the FLAC files] /music/common_mp3/... [a few tracks I have only in MP3. This folder is accessible to both the 'home' and 'mobile' branches via symlinks] I just point SBS to /music/home/ and I get my lossless tracks plus the few I have only in MP3. Absolutely no point whatsoever to pointing SBS to /home/mobile/, much less running a second instance of the server. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77510 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
