Hi, I have had a squeezebox for a while, but I am clearly not taking advantage of all of its features. I am hoping for some pointers on how to do things a bit better. Currently, I have Slimserver running on an Olive Musica (HiFidelio). This is a Linux box that rips and stores my CDs, mostly in FLAC format. At the same time, I have an MP3 library stored in iTunes on a separate PC running WinXP SP2.
Over time, I have neglected the iTunes library, since I do most of my listening on the Musica, or on the linked Squeezebox. However, there is also music in the iTunes library in MP3 that I do not have on the Musica. In short, there are files on each server that are not represented on the other. Ideally, I would like to have both libraries served up in a format that can be recognized by either iTunes or Squeezebox. I gather that LAME should permit me to transcode the FLAC files on the fly, turning them into MP3s that iTunes can recognize (even if they can't be loaded onto an iPod). However, when I look at the LAME settings, there seems to be a choice of either FLAC->FLAC or FLAC->MP3. This leaves me with a couple of questions: 1. Is it possible to set up LAME so that FLAC files are presented as MP3 only for iTunes (while serving FLAC as FLAC to the Slimserver?) 2. Is there software that will run on either the Linux box that will copy/transcode my FLAC library into the iTunes library? If it can keep these two libraries in sync, that would be even better. Thanks! Dan -- Dpfels ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dpfels's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39615 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
