# Smart Playlist with Transcoded Music

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/smart-playlist-with-transcoded-music/622>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/smart-playlist-with-transcoded-music/622 "2019-02-12T13:45:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/smart-playlist-with-transcoded-music/622/4 "2019-03-04T08:09:11Z")

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

> [@Separating same album with different codec/bitdepth/bitrate](https://discourse.beets.io/t/separating-same-album-with-different-codec-bitdepth-bitrate/528/4):
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> One problem I had was I wanted beets to keep the duplicate check logic, but only within a given format family. In the end, I found I had to use multiple beets libraries to accomplish what I wanted. It’s not super difficult, I just added the following aliases to my .bashrc: alias fbeet='beet -l ~/.config/beets/flac.blb' alias mbeet='beet -l ~/.config/beets/mp3.blb' As for keeping everything organized, here’s my path configuration: paths: # Albums/A/ASCI Artist Name, The/[YEAR] ASCI Album Nam…

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