favor flac over mp3 when both exist?

[adrian]

(11-06-2014 17:23)simoncn Wrote:  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.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the tags, which are being automatically generated by abcde. (Easytag doesn't find them to be erroneous.) But I will check the logs. I am wondering if it's possible that the difference is Avia vs BubbleUPnP. I thought that it was the switch to MinimServer that caused the double tracks to go away. But maybe I was mistaken.

It sounds like this #AudioFormat menu choice doesn't really do what I want. I have albums where some tracks are available in flac and mp3 but other tracks are only mp3, and I also have albums only in mp3. I want to play a flac if it's available and the mp3 if the flac doesn't exist. I don't want to show just flac, since that will eliminate some material that is only in mp3. The user shouldn't have to know the format of the material.

So it sounds like I need to go the route of segregating the files into two directory structures, only one of which is indexed.