Reply To: Transcoding to lossy format for bandwidth reasons

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rpedde
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@hypatia wrote:

I’d like to add my vote for this too.

What exactly has to be done to make this work? Rewrite wavstreamer as mp3streamer?

Thanks for a media server,
hypatia

That’s almost all. The cheap answer, if you wanted to *just* do mp3, and didn’t want to be able to choose which, would be to change the transcode script mt-daapd-ssc.sh so that it converted to .mp3 by using lame or something after converting to wav, then changing line 507 of plugin.c to emit a header type of “audio/mp3” rather than “audio/wav”.

But I’d like something that could choose to transcode to mp3 or wav depending on connection IP, so that when you connected via a tunnel from work, it would automatically transcode to mp3, but transcoded to wav at home. Something more integrated like that. But the above would work if that’s what you wanted all the time.

— Ron