Shortcuts possible?

[Pedro]

I've got quite a few instances of the same track being on more than one album (best ofs etc). Does anyone know if it would be possible to simply have one copy of the track, and then use standard Windoze short cuts to minimise disk usage?

If so.... is there any progam out there that would do it automatically??!!

[framesaver]

Don't think shortcuts are the way to go.

You'd probably have to do it through a playlist, pointing the machine to the alternate location of a file that belongs in that album folder, but isn't because it's a double.

Did that make sense?

[Mr.Anderson]

No, that's not normally supported by any windows players that I know. Windows shortcuts also write the absolute path to the file and that is not very smart in this case. I think is would be be possible with linux though, by just using symbolic links.

But it would be great feature if linking was supported by iRiver's products. The simple solution would be to have a simpe text file called "the-same-as-the-original-song.sho". The "sho" is short for shortcut. The text file should then just contain the relative path and name of the real song file....:

This .sho-file is placed in the "Artist/Greatest Hits"-folder

and the .sho-file contains the string "../AnotherAlbumByArtist/##-title.ogg" where ".." means "go back a dir level".

This could probably also be implemented as .m3u playlists, but not with the current iRiver usage of playlists .

That's another suggestion for iRiver