The transcoder in RPMS transcodes your lossless music files (flac) into lossy ones (ogg or mp3). By default, the transcoder is not active, it must be configured to become active.

Enabling transcoder

For getting transcoding to work, take the following steps:

• in your file explorer
  • create a folder flac under smb://rpms/music
  • move your flac-files into that folder flac
• in LMS Server Settings, modify media-folder:
  • from /music
  • to /music/flac
• in the web-interface, under Transcoder, Edit, change setting Source Folder
  • point to flac
• for transcoding to ogg
  • in the web-interface, under Transcoder, Edit, change setting Ogg Folder
    • point to transcoded-ogg
    • the folder is created automatically under smb://rpms/music
• for transcoding to mp3
  • in the web-interface, under Transcoder, Edit, change setting Mp3 Folder
    • point to transcoded-mp3
    • the folder is created automatically under smb://rpms/music

From now on, file transcoding will take place and lossy-files will automagically appear in the given lossy-folder without any interaction.

In the Transcoder-page, You can also click on the Transcode-button, to start an immediate transcoding session, for if you do want to wait for the automatic session to kick in. Note that this button is disabled if transcoding is not configured.

Notes

• some default quality-levels are used for transcoding: ogg = 1, mp3 = 128 kbps; optionally, you can change these defaults through the web-interface under Transcoder
• you can simultaneously transcode to ogg AND mp3; just set both Ogg Folder and Mp3 Folder

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