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

["Jason Bodnar" <jason shakabuku org>]

You could probably do something similar with a FUSE
(http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) filesystem and not have to run a script
everytime your library updates.

On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:02:05 +0100, Derek Cramer wrote
> On 21/05/07, shivers ccs neu edu <shivers ccs neu edu> wrote:
> >
> >    Is there some way to handle this issue? What I'd like is some way to
> >    say: if two tracks with different formats match on some specified set
> >    of metadata (e.g., title/artist/album/year), then just show me the track
> >    with the preferred format. Or something along those lines.
> >
> 
> I had a similar problem with my library containing duplicate files in
> different formats. I have a mixture of flac/ogg/mp3, but a lot of the
> mp3s are duplicates of the others (for my iPod), so I created a
> directory called "all" and wrote a shell script to symlink all my
> music files into all, then prune all the duplicates with the
> preference order flac>ogg>mp3. I just point Rhythmbox at the "all"
> directory, et voila, no duplicates. :-) This works quite well for me.
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