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Can you have single tracks appear in multiple Albums?
Vincent Kars:
Sometime ago I had a more or less the same problem.
You have the original album and ‘the best off’ and they have overlap.
I wanted to have all the tracks in each album but under water 1 physical track on the HD.
So I removed the duplicate from “the best” and made a symbolic link instead.
Technically it works, it plays.
But MC reads the tags so the album is the album title of the original.
I never tried tagging the symbolic link.
I wonder if one does, if this will overwrite the info in the track on the HD as well.
Sandy B Ridge:
--- Quote from: Vincent Kars on October 28, 2011, 06:50:45 am ---I never tried tagging the symbolic link.
I wonder if one does, if this will overwrite the info in the track on the HD as well.
--- End quote ---
I guess the way round this would be to not have tags in the audio file and have them in sidecar files. Then you'd have to make the audio files read only. This would force MC to add a sidecar XML to both the original audio file and the symlink which you could then have different data eg Album name and coverart associated with the two 'instances' of the file.
SBR
Alex B:
This is possible with tailored cue sheets or MPL playlist files. Not easily though. You would need to manually create a new single track cue sheet for each new duplicate track or create mpl playlists that contain similar cue track data.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29082
Edit: For more than one virtual copy of a track you actually must use the MPL method.
JustinChase:
--- Quote from: Alex B on October 28, 2011, 06:36:57 pm ---This is possible with tailored cue sheets or MPL playlist files. Not easily though. You would need to manually create a new single track cue sheet for each new duplicate track or create mpl playlists that contain similar cue track data.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29082
Edit: For more than one virtual copy of a track you actually must use the MPL method.
--- End quote ---
it seems like it would be rather easy if/when MC gets the server split from the customizations.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67229.msg451697#msg451697
They would likely need some sort of File ID (FID) to link the metadata to the actual physical file/media. If multiple users could have different views/ratings/names for the same file, they would have to link to the file, not directly access the file. The profile tells the server it wants FID=12345, and the server knows that refers to a file called The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
This means that the link for me to connect to a song can be put anywhere, including as a track in multiple albums.
When user/profile "Bob" connects to the server, his profile shows that file is called The Beatles - One - 15 - Yellow Submarine - Rock & Roll
When another/profile user connects, they have that same file called The Beatles - Revolver - 16 - Yellow Submarine - Pop
They could ALSO have this track configured as The Beatles - White Album - 1 - Yellow Submarine - Classic Roll
All of them pointing to the same physical file on the library server (FID=12345), which feeds back The Beatles - Yellow Submarine when any of those 3 are selected by anyone.
IF, the physical files ever get split from our metadata about them; someday; maybe :)
rick.ca:
We've discussed before the use of dummy files to facilitate library records for which there is no associated media file. It would be helpful if a pseudo file could created directly in MC. A logical extension of such a feature would be the ability to link that pseudo file to a real media file—so it would act as a shortcut.
This would allow the creation of a "pseudo album" for a variety of purposes—where some or all the tracks are linked to real media files. Tempted by the latest compilation release by your favourite artist? If you already have an extensive collection, create a pseudo album from it's track listing and link the tracks you've already own. Or maybe you're buying the compilation because it's tracks are of better quality than those in your original albums. In that case, do the reverse—replace the old tracks with links to the new. And, of course, it would be an easy way to handle jmone's example—creating albums for lists that are not, and never will be, real albums. A linking tool could even display a list of the real files you most likely want to link to.
Crescent's question, usually in a more general form, comes up regularly. Why can't we tag and display playlists in views the same way we can with albums? There are good reasons. A playlist is just a list—the tracks that appear in them are the records of the actual tracks. Changing them would change the albums the tracks come from. But pseudo files would not have this limitation. A very cool companion command would be Create pseudo album from playlist. That would instantly create an album from a playlist (which might be a smartlist created for the purpose), renumber the tracks in list order and set [Album] to the list name. 8)
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