[Gllug] Maintaining music libraries in various formats

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, August 20, 2009 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:39:48PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I currently have my music collection as a bunch of mp3s, oggs or flacs
>> on a fileserver on my home network.  That's fine for me using linux to
>> play them back but we have several devices (including Windows machines
>> and iPods) at home that don't support either ogg or flac.  I also
>> don't really want to copy the files as flac to my mps player (my
>> mobile phone) as they take up a lot of space so I currently transcode
>> them to ogg or mps.  Ultimately I'd like to keep everything as flac as
>> I have lots of space so I will be gradually re-ripping stuff to flac.
>>
>> Because file space is cheap I had a crazy idea to keep a directory of
>> originals on the network and then to run a periodic script to build a
>> directory of mps3 or oggs from the originals.  This would save time
>> transcoding and would support the various devices on the network
>> better.  Has anyone heard of a scheme like this or knows of any
>> software designed to do this.
>
> That's a such a good idea, I do exactly this myself :-) A 1 TB usb hard
> drive containing the FLAC files as masters, and then a script to convert
> to other formats I care about, currently just mp3 for the ipod.
>

You can get _1TB_ harddrives now !?

(It's been a while since I bought any hardware...)


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