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How you I combine multiple trees of audio files?

Question: I have to multiple trees of music which I like to listen to: a tree of flac-files (/data/music/flac), and an extra tree (/data/music/mp3-extra) containing lossy audio files without a corresponding lossless source. Slimserver is only able to read one tree and one tree only. What's the solution?

Answer: create a symbolic link in the Linux server environment. Linux 'sees' symbolically linked folder as a whole, and so will Slimserver.

How to:
- open a terminal (Putty on Windows, Secure Shell "SSH" on Linux)
- connect to the server
- create a link: sudo ln -s /data/public/music/mp3-extra _mp3-extra
- rescan the Slimserver library

How do I retranscode my lossy files to a different quality level (bit rate)?

Question: I have transcoded to mp3 on 128 Kbit/s. It seems to me that 192 Kbit/s is (audible) better. How do I retranscode?

Answer: Adjust the configuration file for the transcoder (/etc/3a.conf), modify the desired bit rate. Delete the complete tree of all existing mp3-files. Transcoding takes automatically place, just wait and see.

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