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How to separate flac and mp3 albums?
blgentry:
--- Quote from: Zaronn on January 09, 2016, 06:27:45 am ---For example, I have old limited edition albums I have lost and I don't have physical anymore that where ripped in mp3, that I later bought retail album and ripped in flac. I don't wan't to delete the limited edition album because sometimes I would like to listen to det bonus tracks. And so on...
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The case you are describing is two different versions of the same album. As such, you would normally give one album a different title, or at least annotate another field with that information. For example, I have a field called "album_info" where I put information that distinguishes one album from another. I have Donald Fagen's "The Night Fly" from both CD and DVD-A. For the DVD-A version, I have this text in album_info: DVD-A - 2002
That shows me the original source of the release and it's unique release date (2002), which is different from the date that the album was actually recorded (1982). I could just put that information at the end of the album title. That would fix any problems in JRemote I believe. I like my way for right now, but I don't use JRemote or Gizmo very much. If I did, I might develop a different solution. I wonder what our man ferday has to say about all of this. He has many, many different versions of various albums.
Brian.
ferday:
If you use a different field (like album_info) you can use that field to structure a view, which JRemote respects and sorts properly
for example I use album info, file type, and source (and others) tags so I might have
Nirvana-nevermind-1991-flac-cd
Nirvana-nevermind-1991-(2011)-flac-hdtracks
Nirvana-Nevermind-1991-flac-cd-Japan
The album name itself isn't changed but they appear as separate albums in MC and JRemote (and DLNA) by sorting on the extra tags...it does create a bit of havoc with actual searching in JRemote, but I don't use searches very often on the mobile
blgentry:
--- Quote from: ferday on January 09, 2016, 10:00:56 am ---If you use a different field (like album_info) you can use that field to structure a view, which JRemote respects and sorts properly
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Yep. Though on Gizmo the descriptive text is very limited so you can't always see exactly what you're looking for in the displayed name.
--- Quote ---...it does create a bit of havoc with actual searching in JRemote, but I don't use searches very often on the mobile
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...and that's the rub. Searches don't work properly. I may have to figure out some other scheme for naming. Searching is a large part of how I use Standard View. Since I don't use the remotes much, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I suspect that I'll want searches to work properly too.
Brian.
ferday:
A search in standard view is returned in the same view that was searched from, so it should work fine...
It doesn't currently work in JRemote (I don't know gizmo at all) because it gives back a proprietary search result format
blgentry:
--- Quote from: ferday on January 09, 2016, 10:27:41 am ---A search in standard view is returned in the same view that was searched from, so it should work fine...
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Yes, searches in Standard View work exactly as expected with any view scheme.
--- Quote ---It doesn't currently work in JRemote (I don't know gizmo at all) because it gives back a proprietary search result format
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I've only used JRemote a couple of times as I don't have any i-devices. But I suspect the search results are similar in Gizmo and JRemote. As you say, they don't obey any particular view; they are their own thing. ...and they only show one entry per album, and then add ALL albums with that name if you choose to play them. Again, I don't use gizmo much, but I'm planning on having JRemote on a tablet, which I think I'll use a lot more. So, just planning for future use here.
Brian.
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