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Can anyone explain "stacks" (Or transcode from FLAC to MP3) for me for iPods?

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stanzani:
thanks much!

Next question: I have the same music coded in flac and in m4a (aac) which resides in the same folder. I'd like it if they are displayed differently and a trivial remedy should be to embed in the title field the coding type. A more elegant way to filter out or keep separated lossless and lossy files? stacks may help here?

thanks much

blgentry:

--- Quote from: stanzani on January 04, 2016, 04:47:53 am ---Next question: I have the same music coded in flac and in m4a (aac) which resides in the same folder. I'd like the are diplayed differently and a trivial remedy should be to embed in the title field the coding type. A more elegant way to filter out or keep separted losses and lossy files? stack may help here?

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There are a lot of ways to do this.  One good way to do it, is to change your top level views so that they only display the file types that you are interested in.  You could have a view for just FLACs and another for MP3s as an example.

Or you could have a Panes view, and have the first pane be the format:  Click on FLAC and you only see FLACs.

Or you could display them all together and have an expression that grouped them by album and format.  This gets more sophisticated and is more error prone.  Explicitly filtering by format is the most reliable and easy way.

I think you could use stacks to do this, but I'm not sure how you'd automatically stack everything the way you want it.  I think that's the hard way.

The best way for you is going to be the way that reflects how you browse your collection and what you are expecting to do when you go looking.  If you'd like some guidance, give me an idea of how you will be looking and what you expect to see and we can go from there.

Brian.

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