Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Transcoding defaults

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:15 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Sven Arvidsson <sa whiz se> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 20:45 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > > > I just noticed that Rhythmbox has been transcoding my FLAC music to my
> > > > Cowon IAudio in OGG Vorbis format. I'm not sure how (other than that I
> > > > just upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy, but I'd been using the latest Rhythmbox
> > > > for a while).
> > >
> > > You should be able to override this with an .is_audio_player file.
> > >
> > > See
> > http://banshee-project.org/Guide/DAPs/MassStorageDevices
> > for the
> > > details.
> >
> > That's good info, I suppose, but my player is recognized fine by Rhythmbox
> > and Banshee and supports FLACs. So I'm not sure where transcoding-as-default
> > comes into play. Is this a bug in Rhythmbox or HAL?
> 
> This is probably a bug in rhythmbox. HAL reports "audio/flac" as a
> supported type, but we probably recognise FLAC files as "audio/x-flac"
> by the looks of things (output from "gst-typefind-0.10 file.flac"
> would confirm this). If this is the case, we'll need to translate
> between the two in the transcoding code somewhere.

We have the same problem when trying to serve MP3s in the UPNP plugin.
We get "application/x-id3" instead of "audio/mpeg".

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>