I wonder if there has been any progress on RB's ability to transcode (i.e. mp3) to lower bitrates for portable players. I noticed the message in the archive about this particular topic at http://www.mail-archive.com/rhythmbox-devel gnome org/msg05309.html and was wondering if anything had changed in this regard. Understood that HAL likely still does not carry maximum bitrate property for portable devices and that once it does, doing this in RB is easier. However, it would be nice if a user could set a preference on a device-by-device basis, say by right-clicking on a device and setting the bitrate to transcode to when copying files there. The use-case for this is that I may have an MP3 player which may be able to play 320kb mp3s but because it has a small amount of memory, I still only want maximum 128kb mp3s on it. So even in that instance, having the HAL property does not help and only a user-settable-device-by-device preference helps. Given such a use-case, progress on this feature doesn't need to wait for HAL to catch up. Thots? b.
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