On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media device

[Michael Schmarck]

Martin Aumueller <aumuell <at> reserv.at> writes:

> 
> Hi Sergio,
> 
> for amaroK 1.4-svn I'm currently implementing on the fly transcoding
> before transferring to media devices

Hello.

I'm replying to this message from 2006, because I'd like to ask,
if this has actually been implemented by now in Amarok 1.4.8? I
am asking, because I find, that this does not seem to be done.

I'm using Amarok 1.4.8 on a Gentoo Linux ~x86 system. It's been
built with these flags:

I then added my media player as a "Generic Audio Player". I filled
out the options as can be seen on the following screnshot:

http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotamarokmediapleu3.png

Basically, I setup MP3 as a supported format and set, that other,
unsupported formats should be converted to MP3. My MP3 player 
does not support ogg (sadly...), but when I try to transfer an
OGG file to the player using Amarok, Amarok will just refuse to
do this. It prints a message to the effect, that the format isn't
supported.

What would I need to do, so that Amarok automatically converts
media to supported formats?

On launchpad.net, I read that the soundKonverter script should
be able to do that. I installed soundKonverter, but even after
enabling the script in the script manager of Amarok, it does not
automatically transcode stuff.

What's the correct way to get auto-transcoding to work?

Thanks a lot,
Michael