Hi, Firstly I wanted to say thank you for creating such a great piece of software! The majority of my music collection is in FLAC but I also keep transcoded versions for use on devices with constrained storage (e.g. my phone). What I would like to be able to do is easily sync a portion of my coll…

Hi! The only way to do that currently would be to have both versions—FLAC and transcoded—in your beets library. There’s also a third-party plugin that has a similar feel (but it’s not terribly actively maintained): [image] geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives Beets plugin to manage external …

I seem to remember beets having an option to process but not create a db? If this doesn’t exist anymore, you could create a second db, include only the extensions for your transcoded music, and use smartplaylist in that instance. Does that make sense?

@macleodmike Suggested me to create another DB for a different situation and wrote instructions. It might help in your case: [image] Separating same album with different codec/bitdepth/bitrate Help One problem I had was I wanted beets to keep the duplicate check logic, but…

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janpeeters March 4, 2019, 8:09am 4

@macleodmike Suggested me to create another DB for a different situation and wrote instructions. It might help in your case:

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Smart Playlist with Transcoded Music

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