Comments on: Ubuntu media server - reprise. http://www.nelefa.org/2007/10/ubuntu-media-server-reprise/ Talking rubbish on t'Interweb since 1996 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John http://www.nelefa.org/2007/10/ubuntu-media-server-reprise/#comment-30971 John Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:37:23 +0000 http://www.nelefa.org/?p=1272#comment-30971 A very simple reason. MP3 and AAC are already lossy compression techniques and can sound a little flat and lifeless when piped through a decent hi-fi (as I'm doing here). To then transcode to another lossy format would - well, try it and see. If lifeless music and splashy top frequencies are your thing, it might be ok :-D A very simple reason. MP3 and AAC are already lossy compression techniques and can sound a little flat and lifeless when piped through a decent hi-fi (as I’m doing here). To then transcode to another lossy format would - well, try it and see. If lifeless music and splashy top frequencies are your thing, it might be ok :-D

]]> By: Grouse http://www.nelefa.org/2007/10/ubuntu-media-server-reprise/#comment-30970 Grouse Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:29:17 +0000 http://www.nelefa.org/?p=1272#comment-30970 Interesting post, I'm just a little confused at why you don't take a more versatile route and transcode all audio into a pre-defined type. For example .ogg (better compression than mp3). You could make this all autmatic if you wrote a script and told linux to execute it every hour/day/week/month... I would have thought this would have saved the trouble of re-compiling mpd. fyi - 1 quick google later and I found this script -> http://tarken.lyrical.net/files/aac2mp3 (maybe it's not too ogg, but easily changeable). Interesting post, I’m just a little confused at why you don’t take a more versatile route and transcode all audio into a pre-defined type. For example .ogg (better compression than mp3). You could make this all autmatic if you wrote a script and told linux to execute it every hour/day/week/month… I would have thought this would have saved the trouble of re-compiling mpd.

fyi - 1 quick google later and I found this script -> http://tarken.lyrical.net/files/aac2mp3 (maybe it’s not too ogg, but easily changeable).

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