@Metalliferous wrote:
What you’re trying to say is that I should take an existing codectype, rename my files to that extension, so that firefly will start the transcoding process?
Ah, no sorry. I wasn’t verbose enough there. Sorry.
As shipped, there is a conversion script (mt-daapd-ssc.sh) that transcodes alac, flac, and ogg. The relevant config entries look like:
ssc_codecs=alac,flac,ogg
ssc_script=/opt/bin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh
Or something.
Your custom files will be entered in the db with a codec type of “unkn”. So you’ll have to have a script for “unkn” types. You could do this:
ssc_codecs=unkn
ssc_script=/usr/local/bin/my-transcode-script.sh
Except then, it won’t transcode ogg or flac or alac anymore. Also, it doesnt’ use wavstreamer which helps to set up the headers correctly in the generated .wav file. So I think the optimal solution is:
ssc_codecs=alac,flac,ogg,unkn
ssc_script=/opt/bin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh
And then modify the mt-daapd-ssc.sh script such that it will transcode your file type. It should be reasonably easy to modify — take a look and use copy/paste methods to integrate your stuff in.
That’s what I was getting at.
— Ron