Abstract idea of Song instead of pure file management

[Andrew Stromme]

This also makes sense in my case.

I have a desktop where I want to play my flac files.
I have a laptop where I want high quality oggs for space (yet retaining good 
quality) reasons.
I have a Nokia N78 where I want low quality m4as/mp3s for space and format 
reasons.

Having it transparent would be icing on the cake =).

Andrew Stromme

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 21:08:39 Henry de Valence wrote:
> On Tue December 2 2008 3:50:10 pm Gary Steinert wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > One way I can see this working automatically is introducing some sort of
> > transcoding functionality into Amarok. I don't know how possible this
> > would be, but surely there is a library out there that will take most of
> > the work out of adding the feature.
> >
> > This way, if a track is transcoded within Amarok, it would be far easier
> > to flag it as the same song in a different format. Other than this I can
> > see there being quite an involved UI required.
>
> This would work well with something I personally would like; my cellphone
> (a Nokia XpressMusic 5310) can have songs put on it (if I RTFM correctly)
> with either simple file transfer onto the memory card or using some
> proprietary Nokia Windows-only program. I'd like Amarok to be able to
> transcode my music (FLAC files ripped from CD) into medium-low bitrate MP3
> files that I can put on the memory card. Then Amarok would store these MP3s
> with the FLACs so I don't re-transcode everything every time, and wouldn't
> pop up duplicate entries.
>
> Henry de Valence
>
> > Just an idea anyway
> >
> > Gary Steinert
>
> <snip>
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