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I’m curious as someone with a local library, how do you stream it in a different format than it’s encoded in, from your phone?
by samtheprogram 3y ago
I’m curious as someone with a local library, how do you stream it in a different format than it’s encoded in, from your phone?
- lozf 3y agoLossy to lossy transcodes always cause more degradation, so it's better to keep your lossy files in their original format without any re-encoding. Easy transcodes to various lossy formats are the primary reason for a well maintained and curated library of proper FLACs (or ALACs). The main advantage being that your can fit more great sounding music on your space-limited device. Disk space is cheap, but upgrades on your phone are probably not. Even if your Music collection fits easily, why not have more room for other media / apps?
- doubled112 3y agoI used to use Subsonic and one of the many clients. I don't know if Subsonic is still an option, but there are many server side applications, including a few forks, that fill that role. There are others that work with those same Subsonic clients. It will allow you to choose a codec for streaming that is different than storage.
- pimeys 3y agoPlexamp does this automatically if requested.