Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Transcoding while streaming to iTunes?

[James Livingston <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 10:46 -0400, Craig S. Kaplan wrote: 
> Is it not possible to transcode to disk and then stream from there?
> Obviously, I wouldn't mind all my clients keeping around a small
> working set of transcoded files as overhead on top of 50GB of music.
> Actually, I wouldn't really mind doing that in memory either.  I
> just stuck in an extra 512MB -- I have to use it for something.

That's one option, and I think Banshee does that for transcoded-for-ipod
files. Calling them "._ORGININAL_NAME.mp3" or something.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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