My music collection is about half mp3 and half ogg. Both files play on my squeezebox just fine. I have recently been playing with streaming to other computers on my network with my slimserver, but only the mp3 files stream successfully. Thinking my clients did not have native support for ogg files, I tried flipping the transcode settings in the slimserver file types page: check "mp3" for the ogg file type. This ought to convert the files to mp3 format for streaming, right? When pressing the button to make the change, the software does not accept the input for some reason and resets back to an unchecked box. OK, perhaps the computer running slimserver (a newer install on a backroom computer) does not support ogg either, and therefore cannot transcode such files. Sure enough, it wants to install some more software when I try to play ogg files with a local music player, so I let it, test that ogg files now play locally (affirmative), then restart slimserver. Still the same behavior though.
I think I am on the right track (please confirm or deny.) But maybe there is a specific software package slimserver needs to perform the transcode. Decoder listed is "lame." Is this readily installed in Ubuntu from main repositories? I am running Ubuntu 7.04. Advice and explanations appreciated. -- tuco penguin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tuco penguin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11968 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36068 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
