favor flac over mp3 when both exist?

[simoncn]

(11-06-2014 17:05)adrian Wrote:  I have been ripping my collection into flac and mp3, and at the moment, the files are together in one directory. When I used the default server that came with my synology NAS it would show me both the flac and mp3 (with no way to tell which was which). MinimServer appears to be preferentially playing the mp3 and ignoring the flac. The ideal thing would be that when both flac and mp3 are present it plays the flac, but if only the mp3 exists, then it plays the mp3. Is there some way to get this behavior?

(Alternatively I can of course move the mp3 files to a location that is not indexed by the server. But that makes it more difficult to manage the tags consistently.)

MinimServer doesn't play anything. It's up to the control point to select which files to play.

If the FLAC and MP3 files have the same tags, they should appear together in the list of album tracks, so each track would appear twice (as you were seeing with the Synology server). If the FLAC files aren't appearing, there may be a problem with how they are tagged. Have you checked the MinimServer log for error or warning messages?

When you have solved the problem that's preventing the FLAC files from being displayed, you can view only the FLAC files without showing the MP3 files by adding #AudioFormat to indexTags. This displays an additional #AudioFormat menu choice that allows you to select only the FLAC files.