28 Dec
2010
28 Dec
'10
12:41 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 08:12:03AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Lots to think about. Basically, I have a Roku Netflix player that has
a special plugin that will stream my iTunes library to the home
theater system. Problem is there isn't an AAC decoder on the Roku so
currently it only works for mp3 or (I think) wave files. If I can
convert the library correctly then the family can listen to my library
instead of just me.
Problem is I think the tags have to be retained or iTunes isn't going
to tell the Roku what the songs are called, etc.
Time to maybe create a small library copy and do some scripting based
on your inputs. Thanks!
I don't know how this would play out w.r.t. tags, but MP3FS, which is a
FUSE filesystem, seems rather appropriate for this sort of
circumstance. It does on the fly transcoding.
Having mentioned, I figured I'd look it up again to see how much chance
it has of being appropriate here. Alas, it appears to be dedicated to
FLAC->MP3. Too bad it can't just work with anything that ffmpeg can
read, as well as do proper tag conversion.
Still, maybe someone is looking for a project.