seanadams
2003-11-10, 19:30
One idea OTOH would be to add an id3 tag which indicates that the
individual files should be ignored.
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Ian Whalley wrote:
> My MP3 server gets used for two things -- first, to
> stream to SLIMP3s (duh!); second, to get copied onto
> iPods for mobile use.
>
> iPods don't do .CUE files, but the SLIMP3 does (and
> does them jolly well, nice work). So for some albums,
> it would be ideal for me to be able to store both the
> single-huge-mp3-with-matching-cue, _and_ the
> one-mp3-per-track versions. This has a rather
> unfortunate doubling effect when the SLIMP3 sees both
> versions.
>
> Obviously, one solution is to store the
> one-mp3-per-track versions outside the directory that
> the SLIMP3 thinks of as the music root. This would
> work great, but I don't really want to do it (the
> collection lives, carefully sorted, on a RAID5 volume
> set).
>
> What I'd really like is to do this:
>
> pink floyd - the wall / the_wall.mp3
> the_wall.cue
> separate / 1.01 - in the flesh.mp3
> 1.02 - the thin ice .mp3
> [ ... ]
> 2.13 - outside the wall.mp3
>
> And then be able to tell the SLIMP3 server to ignore
> everything underneath all directories called 'separate'
> in the collection (presumably one would do this by
> regexp).
>
> Is there some way to do this with the current server
> software? Or some other way to have the server
> 'prefer' CUEed versions of an album over unCUEed
> versions of the same album?
>
> Cheers;
>
> inw
>
> --
> Ian Whalley <first name> @ <last name> . org
>
individual files should be ignored.
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Ian Whalley wrote:
> My MP3 server gets used for two things -- first, to
> stream to SLIMP3s (duh!); second, to get copied onto
> iPods for mobile use.
>
> iPods don't do .CUE files, but the SLIMP3 does (and
> does them jolly well, nice work). So for some albums,
> it would be ideal for me to be able to store both the
> single-huge-mp3-with-matching-cue, _and_ the
> one-mp3-per-track versions. This has a rather
> unfortunate doubling effect when the SLIMP3 sees both
> versions.
>
> Obviously, one solution is to store the
> one-mp3-per-track versions outside the directory that
> the SLIMP3 thinks of as the music root. This would
> work great, but I don't really want to do it (the
> collection lives, carefully sorted, on a RAID5 volume
> set).
>
> What I'd really like is to do this:
>
> pink floyd - the wall / the_wall.mp3
> the_wall.cue
> separate / 1.01 - in the flesh.mp3
> 1.02 - the thin ice .mp3
> [ ... ]
> 2.13 - outside the wall.mp3
>
> And then be able to tell the SLIMP3 server to ignore
> everything underneath all directories called 'separate'
> in the collection (presumably one would do this by
> regexp).
>
> Is there some way to do this with the current server
> software? Or some other way to have the server
> 'prefer' CUEed versions of an album over unCUEed
> versions of the same album?
>
> Cheers;
>
> inw
>
> --
> Ian Whalley <first name> @ <last name> . org
>