Finding Specific (FLAC or MP3) version of albums
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Just installed Node 2i, accessing my NAS music library. My library is organized into artist named folders. Within each folder is a FLAC and MP3 copy of each album. When searching for albums or artists thru BlueOS I find the album but the song list contains the FLAC and MP3 version of each song. If I wish to play the album obviously I do not want to play each song twice. How do I prevent that?
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Many artists only have MP3 versions of the albums at this time, so can't move them.
I am a newbie and don't mean to sound stupid, but it is not obvious to me how to filter. Help?
Thanks
Larry
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Indeed, filtering by Quality is limited and will not necessarily remove MP3 from the list. I have the options CD, Hi-Res and MQA, which will not separate MP3 from M4A files, both being at 44,1kHz
I have created an MP3 copy of all albums, store it elsewhere on my server and only keep MP3s in the indexed folder when another format is not available. Generally, I do change the title in the Metadata to « album (MP3) », so they are being treated as different albums. In case I forgot to move the files out of the shared folder they will show up as 2 different albums and can move them later on if I wish to do so.
I do keep MP3 files for syncing purposes with phone or car, and keep them separate from the Lossless files. Yes, this needs a bit of shifting files around sometimes, but it is well worth it.
You will need to play around a bit to create the structures you need for your purposes, maybe look for a music manager that best fits or even use different managers for the different purposes.
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