Hammerhead wrote: > > > Unfortunately, all my audio files are .flac, which is not supported by > the system. I have no desire to manage two sets of file extensions on > my NAS (.flac for home and .mp3 for the car) and obviously want to > maximize the sound quality, which pretty much rules .mp3 out. > > I'm looking for some advice on how to implement a Pi in such a way that > I can accomplish two things. > > 1) Turn the Pi into a transcoding file server (to convert .flac to .wav) > and connect it via Bluetooth or the car's USB media port. I don't know > if I can use the HDMI port (along with an HDMI to USB adapter) on the Pi > to do this, or what configuration might be necessary. > 2) Synchronize the Pi to my NAS nightly via WiFi so that as I continue > to rip my collection to my NAS, the files are synchronized to the car. >
If you think that mp3 sound quality isn't good enough, bluetooth won't be an option either (see 'here' (https://www.soundguys.com/understanding-bluetooth-codecs-15352/)). The car system / Pi will use SBC (or AAC if you are lucky), which are worse than high quality mp3. You cannot stream to USB storage, so audio files will have to be converted before being copied to the storage device. In this scenario, there's no transcoding. SW: 'Web UI for LMS' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) | 'Playlist Editor / Generator' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108199-Announce-LMS-Playlist-Editor) | 'Music Classification' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108278-Announce-Essentia-Integration-music-classification-(moods-genres-)) | 'Similar Music' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108495-Announce-LMSmusly-play-similar-music) | 'LMSlib2go' (https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/lmslib2go/) HowTos: 'build a self-contained LMS' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99648-Howto-build-a-self-contained-LMS) | 'Ogg Opus' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107011-Howto-play-Ogg-Opus-files) | 'Bluetooth/ALSA' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107230-Howto-Bluetooth-streaming-to-from-LMS-(ALSA-only-no-PulseAudio)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108853 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
