My problem is that i have my music library (~500CD's worth) in two different formats. I originally had everything in flac. Then I bought a mac-mini after being convinced by a 'genius' at the apple store that ITunes would play flac. Well, it wouldn't, so I re-ripped my entire library to apple lossless. Years go by and I add music to my collection. Now, I'm making a major change and not using the mini to play music through my home stereo anymore and I'm going back to my squeezebox. So, I have two lossless versions of most of my library, with some apple lossless only. The last time I looked at slimserver, it would transcode apple lossless to mp3. Now it looks like it will transcode it to flac, which means I will be able to continue to hear my music in a lossless format. My problem is, what is the best way to sift through all of this and get things re-organized? I think I can use ITunes to tag the apple lossless stuff that needs to have tags messed with, but I'm not sure the right way to change tags on the flac content.
My plan was to delete the apple lossless version of any duplicates (mostly because I hate apple for all the hassle I had to go through when I bought the mini in the first place). But, I have two different directory structures. Should I worry about that? Should I just get the tags in order and then let slimserver scan it and let it deal with things? Also, because of how I play music throughout my house (a different stereo set-up, using Control 4), I need to maintain an mp3 version of my entire library. Does anyone have a good way to manage multiple versions? I am envisioning something that I could script that would just do everything in a first pass, and then run nightly and recode any differences that it finds. I'm hosting slimserver and filesystem that the music is living on on an UNRAID server (a flavor of linux) with a core2 duo and 4gb of memory. Therefore, i'm not worried about the CPU cycles that might go into the on-the-fly transcoding of the apple lossless to flac. Sorry if this is a rambling sort of post, but I'm hoping to trigger a few rambling type of answers as those typically have the best tips :) Thanks in advance, Chris -- oconnellc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oconnellc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62563 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
