Just found out about this project: mp3fs
From the website http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/:
MP3FS is A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read.
Just set this up, literally in 5min, so some co-workers could download some music and I must say it is fucking tits…
what?
if on computer, why not just play the flac. If on ipod you can use rockbox to play them…
I must be missing something that makes it cool to play flac to mp3
why would u transcode lossless to mp3?
A lot of players don’t support lossless.
Edit: Actually, this is pretty cool. You could have a master copy of your music in lossless and make the FUSE’d directory available across the network for the players that don’t support lossless. I wonder what the overhead would be on that.
then use a player than does.
1.1) Larger on harddrive
1.2) Longer to download
exactly, why dl flac in the first place.
For example, if I want to stream my collection to my xbox I don’t need to have two copies of every song, one in flac and one in mp3, which would take up even more hard drive space.
If I wanted to I could create another FUSE mount with a lower quality mp3 for streaming music.
I haven’t noticed any overhead.
just use WMA, better quality than mp3 anyways. plus u can stream them.
ehh nm, i see what ur doing now.
WMA in linux? do-able but yeah i don’t think so…
XBMC supports flac