Old Internet Radio

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I have an old internet radio that can only play mp3, wma and real audio files, while most of my classical music I store as flac. Since the old device does not even process wav, transcoding does not help.

My files are sorted in directories that contain either mp3 files and no subdirectory named "__mp3__" or they are stored in directories that contain both flac-files and a directory named "__mp3__" (which contains the same files as mp3, so that I can copy them to a mobile device and save storage). In MinimServer I use excludePattern "__mp3__" to prevent showing the same title in flac and mp3. That, however, means that my old internet radio cannot play most of my classical music.

MinimServer can provide the audioformat (#AudioFormat). But what I would actually need is to select between low quality (all titles as mp3) or max quality (flacs where present, mp3 otherwise) and still display only one item per title.

I could think of a number of ways to achieve this, but I did not manage to get any of them working for they all presuppose some added functionality.

(1) If there was a way to have minimwatch add instances of minimserver on QNAP (I use a TS-431) and manage different preferences I could still exclude __mp3__ folders in one and include them but exclude flac-files in the other instance (best if there would be an option to exclude filetypes, but still possible by using the #AudioFormat tag).

(2) If in MinimServer properties I could define a property like AlternativeFormatFolders so that minimServer would add two tags to each file:
- IsInAlternativeFormatFolder=1 if the folder name of the file matches AlternativeFormatFolder (0 otherwise) and
- HasAlternativeFormatFolder=1 if the folder the file is in contains a subfolder whose name matches AlternativeFormatFolder (0 otherwise)
then I could slve my problem even within the same instance of minimServer

(3) minimServer could "simply" add functionality for multiple formats of the same file. (stream.transcode already allows for a list of target formats, but since flac:wav/mp3 is not valid [even flac:mp3 is not valid] I cannot solve my problem this way.)