multiple collections with duplicate files
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:38 pm
Hi all,
I've read through what I can find on this topic but I think I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Let me explain my issue. I have a collection of music, some of it FLAC and some if it mp3. I have playlists for this and have been using this happily for a while now. I maintain the FLAC and the MP3 in different directory trees like: Music/FLAC/Artist/Album and Music/Compressed/Artist/Album. Over time I'm filling in the FLAC collection and I purchase more CDs to rip and improve the quality of the library. I maintain a third directory tree that I do not have scanned into MediaMonkey which I have for synching to my Zune. Music/Mobile/Artist/Album. This is all the transcodes of the FLAC to mp3 plus all the mp3 I own in one place that I can choose what to sync with the Zune. I have about 26k tracks so it doesn't all fit on the 80GB player so I have to choose what to sync. I've been doing the same thing with my phone and using MMA on my phone but
I've been very unhappy with the lack of volume leveling on the phone since I have been just copying the files to the SD card rather than syncing with MMW. Now I want to try and sync between MMW and MMA as I have a larger enough CD card to fit the entire compressed collection on my phone.
The answer lies somewhere in Collections, I know that. But I'm unclear how to get all the MP3s that are duplicates of the FLACs into MMW without having duplicate, lower quality tracks that will come up when I shuffle play. I can't seem to figure out how to create the second Collection. I assume once I have the second Collection made with all the files from the third directory, I will be able to choose just those to sync with my phone and I'll be all set. I just don't want all those mp3 tracks messing up my good FLAC tracks. I use shuffle play a lot through the sound system attached to my computer and through Squeezebox.
Is there a way to do this right and still make sure I only get the tracks from the FLAC + Compressed directories when I shuffle play and not the Mobile one? And to make sure I can sync to just the Mobile directory on the phone?
Sorry if this has been answered, I could not locate it. And does this mean I need to scan the Mobile directory into the Library?
Thanks,
Tony
I've read through what I can find on this topic but I think I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Let me explain my issue. I have a collection of music, some of it FLAC and some if it mp3. I have playlists for this and have been using this happily for a while now. I maintain the FLAC and the MP3 in different directory trees like: Music/FLAC/Artist/Album and Music/Compressed/Artist/Album. Over time I'm filling in the FLAC collection and I purchase more CDs to rip and improve the quality of the library. I maintain a third directory tree that I do not have scanned into MediaMonkey which I have for synching to my Zune. Music/Mobile/Artist/Album. This is all the transcodes of the FLAC to mp3 plus all the mp3 I own in one place that I can choose what to sync with the Zune. I have about 26k tracks so it doesn't all fit on the 80GB player so I have to choose what to sync. I've been doing the same thing with my phone and using MMA on my phone but
I've been very unhappy with the lack of volume leveling on the phone since I have been just copying the files to the SD card rather than syncing with MMW. Now I want to try and sync between MMW and MMA as I have a larger enough CD card to fit the entire compressed collection on my phone.
The answer lies somewhere in Collections, I know that. But I'm unclear how to get all the MP3s that are duplicates of the FLACs into MMW without having duplicate, lower quality tracks that will come up when I shuffle play. I can't seem to figure out how to create the second Collection. I assume once I have the second Collection made with all the files from the third directory, I will be able to choose just those to sync with my phone and I'll be all set. I just don't want all those mp3 tracks messing up my good FLAC tracks. I use shuffle play a lot through the sound system attached to my computer and through Squeezebox.
Is there a way to do this right and still make sure I only get the tracks from the FLAC + Compressed directories when I shuffle play and not the Mobile one? And to make sure I can sync to just the Mobile directory on the phone?
Sorry if this has been answered, I could not locate it. And does this mean I need to scan the Mobile directory into the Library?
Thanks,
Tony