A question for devs

[Jeff Mitchell]

Quoting Vladimir Kulev <me at lightoze.net>:
>> This goes back to the use case in the bug of the person with both .flac
>> and .mp3 files of the same music.  I used to do this too, and I never ran
>> into any problem, because I put the .flac files and .mp3 files in separate
>> but identical directory trees.  So my .flacs would be rooted
>> in /mnt/music/FLAC and my .mp3s would be rooted in /mnt/music/MP3 with the
>> directory trees underneath being the same.  Then you simply add one, or the
>> other, to Amarok's collection (and if you want to use the .flacs and
>> put .mp3s onto devices, there's always the File Browser).  If you already
>> have your .flacs and .mp3s in the same directories, it's trivial to write a
>> script to separate them.
>
> I have different music sets in mp3/ogg and flac. There is no reason   
> to convert
> lossy files to lossless and vice versa - in both cases you loose something
> important (quality or disk space and knowledge about real sound quality). Now
> you can suggest to delete lossy duplicates, but assume that you have
> mounted two separate read-only music shares (e.g. lossy and lossless)...

I didn't suggest deleting anything at all.

--Jeff