Won't that require a lot of disk space though? And what should I do if all
I got, for example, is an mp3 file?

I just think it's strange that it's not possible to pre-encode the music,
since that would save both storage space and CPU on the machine that act as
source.
On Feb 8, 2014 1:58 AM, "adiblol" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Liquidsoap operates on PCM audio, not compressed frames, therefore
> re-encoding is mandatory.
> Please use only lossless formats as source. Otherwise stream will sound
> like crap.
>
>
> W dniu 2014-02-07 23:31, Daniel Jonsson napisaƂ(a):
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have set up Liquidsoap as a source to Icecast. My music files are
> > in
> > Opus and they are transcoded by Liquidsoap to Opus. Is it possible to
> > avoid this re-encoding process and preserve quality?
> >
> > I'm thinking about pre-encoding my music into, lets say, Opus 100
> > kbit/s and then also stream it as Opus 100 kbit/s. This will save
> > storage space, but isn't there a risk that this degrades the quality?
> >
> > What's the recommended procedure to avoid quality loss?
> >
> >
> >
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