On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media device

[Ian Monroe]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Schmarck
<michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de> wrote:
> 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?

Martin kept his word, you use the script transkoder.

Ian