Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] duplicate-format songs in library; speed of import

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:40:50AM -0400, shivers ccs neu edu wrote:
> > I have two questions/issues with respect to Rhythmbox.
> >
> > 1. I keep songs redundantly formatted in my music repository: every
> >    song is stored full-resolution in flac and lossily compressed in
> >    mp3. This means that when I import my repository into Rhythmbox,
> >    I see every song twice. This completely hoses my ability to play albums
> >    with any ease at all.
>
> Why do you do this?  It seems like the easiest solution would be 
> $ find /music -name '*.mp3' -exec rm {} \;   .. but maybe there's a
> reason you don't want to do that.

How about using a shell script to simply rename all the mp3 files to 
have a leading dot/period - which would make them hidden on Linux/Unix 
machines.

Then RB (and other tools) should ignore the mp3 files, and only detect 
and play the FLAC files.

I think some programs (including RB?) do this sort of thing themselves 
when preparing a transcoded version of a file for export to mp3 players...

Peter