![]() It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. I currently have it on my laptop, and I can play my virtual MP3s in RhythmBox and what so ever and I can also use the preview function in the filebrowser, my question remains has anyone tried it with QNAP/UPNP? -GUPTAĬode: Select all This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. But this is not enough, in fact the metadata from the flac (album art and o on), stored as ogg vorbis comments are automatically transfereed to the MP3's as corresponding ID3-tags as well, which means zero extra maintenance as well. So instead of having cron-jobs or other schedueled tasks that converts your loss-less master flac's to MP3 on a regular basis, that will take up even more space on your HDD, with mp3fs you're master files in the lossless FLAC directory automatically are mirrored to as many different MP3 folders you wish (one for each quaulity for instance), all with zero extra space. In fact they are only pointing towards the original FLAC (the 'master' if you will). Yes, its true that it takes some processing power to transcode the MP3's but the nice feauture is that the MP3's take zero space on the harddrive, since they are virtual. Petur wrote:correct me if I'm wrong, but does this mean the files get transcoded *every* time they are accessed, or is there some caching involved? Because transcodeing all your FLAC files every time you sync your mp3 player seems like a waste of resources (and slow) Yes, they (the MP3's) are transcoded on the fly every time you access them, that's the beauty of it! Actually I think your're missing the point here a little. ?) I've seen some other work on getting a fuse-dependent library (ntfs-3g) to work in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=91&t=3348 Not sure if that could be a starting point. Anyone with more experience on compiling custom libraries on Qnap that could help me on the way? (Or anyone at Qnap that think this would be a quite cheap but very useful addition to the feature set. Fuse seems to be installed, but not in a way that would help me complie mp3fs. And I'm not capable of getting that to work. (And the initial conversion and rsync could be done on a computer with more processing power, just writing the "cache" to the server.) But of course, this would require mp3fs on the Qnap. As one of the previous posters noted, I guess this would be a bit heavy on the processor, but combined with a "cache" of the mp3fs mount point built every night with rsync I think it would work - the rsync check on size and modified date does not trigger the transcoding, only files that changed since last rsync would need to be converted. The transparency of mp3fs would make it extremely convenient as all changes to the metadata on the master files would automatically update the (virtual) mp3 library as well. I have my library encoded as flac to use with SqueezeCenter, but would want to use the music in iTunes and especially on my iPod. If you have people who would know how to port MP3FS, I think it would be a great addition to the TS-109/209 series.īumping this old topic as this is exactly what I want to do. Many people I know are faced with this problem. Having read the forums, I know there would be a lot of demand for this application. The idea here is to allow iTunes (or whatever software is used to load an MP3 player) log directly into the Qnap and load MP3 files from the server, even though the raw files are maintained as FLAC. ![]() However, that only covers streaming MP3, not the availability of files (as far as I can tell). I know that LAME (which is a component of MP3FS) is supposed to run on the newest Qnap devices. Anything that is loaded into the FLAC directory is immediately available as MP3. As conversion from FLAC to MP3 happens on the fly, the MP3 directory takes essentially no space. There is a Linux utility called MP3FS ( ) which does the conversion on the fly, presenting the MP3 files in a virtual directory that mirrors the content of the FLAC directory. While it is possible to transcode every file and maintain two complete directories of music, that is fairly inefficient. Many people maintain their music (for the Slimserver, for instance) in FLAC but also want to load music onto their MP3 players that don't support FLAC. This is obviously targeted at users of Slimserver, but I think it would be generally useful. The idea concerns maintaining a mirror directory with MP3 copies of FLAC files. This may be a bit out of your area, but I thought it is worth a try, since you support the multimedia server feature on the TS-109/209.
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