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Best practices to display multiple copies of same album
Vocalpoint:
As many of you - within my collection - I have multiple "versions" of specific favorite albums that differ from one another - usually due to mastering, track order etc. Up until recently - these additional "versions" have been part of my long term backup archives and I really want to get them out of storage and into the main library.
But I want to do it in the most efficient method possible. Since I have spend a considerable amount of time entering my metadata - altering the actual "Album" field (by adding text) is not really appealing to me. Ideally - I would like to harness the power of the existing metadata and expressions within MC - to be able to display multiple versions within a view but without actually changing any base metadata. I am open to using (or even adding) new db fields to make this happen.
As far as storage goes - I would probably lean to creating unique folders for the files on the server using the actual catalog number of the release to ensure each file set can be stored (and backed up) out there without conflict.
Looking forward to discussion from those of you who have done this successfully.
Cheers!
VP
JimH:
Please see if the Wiki topic on Stacks would help.
Vocalpoint:
--- Quote from: JimH on August 27, 2015, 08:30:05 am ---Please see if the Wiki topic on Stacks would help.
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I tried to understand Stacks before and it didn't take. Just looked at the wiki - and still no joy.
Too technical and confusing to even start to try - especially when I have no actual files in the library to "stack" yet.
I am hoping there are a few folks that can share their "display" method ideas without getting into Stacks.
VP
JimH:
Select an MP3 and a FLAC of the same track, right click and choose "Stack". It puts them together and you can move them or tag them as one. You can unstack. If you play one, it will play the high quality version.
Vocalpoint:
--- Quote from: JimH on August 27, 2015, 10:16:27 am ---Select an MP3 and a FLAC of the same track, right click and choose "Stack". It puts them together and you can move them or tag them as one. You can unstack. If you play one, it will play the high quality version.
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Jim,
This is not a case of having an MP3 and a FLAC version - it's more like I need to know an efficient way to properly be able to display, search and access my 6 different masterings of Dark Side of the Moon - all of them in FLAC, all with identical track counts, identical tracknames etc etc.
Stacks does not seem suited to this kind of request.
VP
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