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Can you have single tracks appear in multiple Albums?

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jmone:
The answer is already in MC = Playlists.  What we would need is the ability to show Playlists under the main section headings just like other "albums"

Vincent Kars:
The only thing that pops up as an album and is not a audio file is a CUE sheet.
Never tried but if you add a second file statement maybe it works


TITLE "Top 100 Week 1"
FILE "hit 1.mp3" MP3
TRACK 01 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Artist 1"
TITLE "Hit 1"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

FILE "hit 1.mp3" MP3
TRACK 02 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Artist 2"
TITLE "Hit 2"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: jmone on October 29, 2011, 03:44:24 pm ---The answer is already in MC = Playlists.  What we would need is the ability to show Playlists under the main section headings just like other "albums"
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Perhaps they could be made to display in a regular view, but their contents cannot be tagged without changing the original tracks. I understand this may not be necessary or even desired for the application you have in mind, but the solution I suggested has a much broader application. And it would avoid the confusion that would inevitably result from mixing playlist entries with real files (which is likely the reason we can't do this now). Pseudo files could be added, tagged, displayed and deleted exactly like real real files. If there were any compelling reason to display a playlist as an album (and surely it is a special case), one could be created effortlessly with a Create pseudo album from playlist command.

JustinChase:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on October 29, 2011, 05:34:27 pm ---Perhaps they could be made to display in a regular view, but their contents cannot be tagged without changing the original tracks. I understand this may not be necessary or even desired for the application you have in mind, but the solution I suggested has a much broader application. And it would avoid the confusion that would inevitably result from mixing playlist entries with real files (which is likely the reason we can't do this now). Pseudo files could be added, tagged, displayed and deleted exactly like real real files. If there were any compelling reason to display a playlist as an album (and surely it is a special case), one could be created effortlessly with a Create pseudo album from playlist command.

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'pseudo' files could be treated exactly like 'real' files except the RID would not actually point to anything.  Otherwise the cover art, stats, whatever would behave exactly the same.  If one day you acquired the actual media file, you just tell MC, here is the media for this record, and it stores it away with the rest of the media, no big deal.  Clicking play could force MC to ask you if you have it now "The file is not available, would you like to add it now?"  [Rip]  [Browse]  [Link to another file]

jmone:
I'd suggest that playlists are still the go but that any tagging / coverart you do just stays in the DB and is not copied to the files.  That way you can have any mix and match, display them anywhere, tag them as you want but it is all just in the DB.  The pseudo file concept is just a way around the limitations that we have with the current implemention of the DB.  As you know from this thread http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=66392.0 we can create duplicates in the DB that point to a single item (and it will work with any type including Audio) + we can tag them up individually ....but to your point at present if these tags are ever written back to the file they will trash the old ones (unless you make the file Read Only). 

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