# Any flac and linux users? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 20, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321 "2008-06-20T08:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/1 "2008-06-20T08:57:03Z")
Just found out about this project: mp3fs From the website [http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/:](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… ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/2 "2008-06-20T09:00:35Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/3 "2008-06-20T09:02:27Z")
why would u transcode lossless to mp3? ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Danger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/matt_danger/32/4981_2.png) [@Matt\_Danger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Matt_Danger)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/4 "2008-06-20T09:10:38Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/5 "2008-06-20T09:13:09Z")
> [@Matt Danger](#): > > A lot of players don’t support lossless. then use a player than does. 1. if you can’t listen at flac whats the point of downloading it as flac 1.1) Larger on harddrive 1.2) Longer to download 1. why make the quality shittier… ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/6 "2008-06-20T09:13:52Z")
exactly, why dl flac in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/7 "2008-06-20T10:47:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/8 "2008-06-20T10:50:18Z")
just use WMA, better quality than mp3 anyways. plus u can stream them. ehh nm, i see what ur doing now. ---
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/9 "2008-06-20T11:07:25Z")
WMA in linux? do-able but yeah i don’t think so… ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-flac-and-linux-users/50321/10 "2008-06-20T11:52:25Z")
XBMC supports flac