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How to separate flac and mp3 albums?

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Zaronn:
Hi. Thanks, that's sort of working. But not exactly what I want. But it's a solution. They still mix a bit (have to click album tree before they separete in mp3 and flac album). I was hoping it was possible to seperate them through tagging or something. So I don't need to have sevaral view trees and stuff.

blgentry:
You can probably make a view that uses an expression for the category.  An expression something like:
[Album Artist (auto)] [Album] [File Type]

That should separate the albums out from each other properly.  Then you'll need to customize the thumbnail text too.  Something like:

[Album Artist (auto)]
[Album] ([File Type])

You can format it any way you want. That's just an example.

I don't have any albums like you do:  MP3 and FLAC copies.  But I *do* have a couple that are at different Sample Rates and I just tested this technique on them.  It works correctly.

If you need any pointers along the way, ask and we'll try to help.

Brian.

Arindelle:
Not sure exactly what you want here, but I'm know you can do it with tags .... there are a lot of options

I'd normally do what Brian suggested already in detail. It depends on what the purpose is. I would imagine with local playback you would always want to play the flac files right? If that is the case in the rules for the view just select File Type IS NOT mp3. Done deal. Doesn't matter what type of view .. pane, category, theater, or remote.

But maybe you have some mp3s not in flac (I have a few) that you do not want to exclude. Then you can also do a variety of things like use the keyword field or create one that is similar. Find all the duped mp3; select them and tag them with something like exclude in one go. Then in your main views instead of IS NOT mp3 use the Keyword or other field to not include the files tagged with "exclude" if you follow me.

Some people keep different masters or have flac and DSD recordings for example ... that's something else, and usually they make a slight change to the Album Title. JR uses ALbum Artist (or Album Artist (auto)) + the Album titles as a un ID which is why they will regroup together if nothing is done about it.

A more elaborate expression could probably be made to exclude only the mp3s that are duplicates without tagging, but I have a lot of hidden or excluded files in my views and they help later on with admin (like when I get around to replacing the mp3s with good flac tracks). I find it a good idea to physically separate these too on my hard drives. Using tags you can then use the Move, Rename, Copy Tool (F6) to painless get them out from potentially the same album folders if/when needed). The new path for the mp3 part of the collection could then be added to your import config.

Lots of way to get there, but as I said depends on what you want to achieve. Also would depend if you are consistent tagging your [album artist] and [album] fields if you want to isolate the dupes easily.

imeric:
Why do you need both?

I too would delete your MP3 equivalent and only keep the lossless file.

If you need them for a handheld JRiver is great at doing autoconversion on the fly especially from FLAC or ALAC to MP3...

That's what I did anyways and works like a charm.  

However I had a bunch of FLACs that I converted to ALAC for compatibility with iTunes that I still use to sync with my iphone.

My Ipod 5th gen, my Android phone or USB keys are all synced is synced with JRiver and it works great.

dtc:
I have DSD, HI Rez PCM, HDCD and CD rips of the same albums. I just give them different album titles, with the format appended to the end if they are not CDs.  Not elegant, but it always works to separate the albums. When I tried to rely just on  tags, I could not, at a quick glance,  figure out exactly which format I was looking at. With it in the title, it is easy.

That said I do have a separate user defined tag for CD, Hi-Rez, Vinyl, MP3, Internet Radio, etc. I do not use it for separating the albums, but I do use it to label the albums in standard category view. The last line of the thumbnail text checks the user define tag and labels anything that is no a CD. That way anything other than CD stands out in the view.

That said, I do have a special view for vinyl and I do do that based on my user defined tag. But that is a special case. The tag is set automatically on import, since my vinyl files are all in a folder dedicated to vinyl.

So, different album names for sorting, user defined tag for labeling. As I said, not the most elegant, but it works.

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