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Armoret
Jan 20, 2012, 6:26:33 PM1/20/12
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Hi,
first of all, thank you for this application, this is a good work.
I would like to suggest an improvement : the ALAC format is not
currently supported on Android devices and, even if ALAC source code
has recently been released by Apple, the Android team did not plan
(yet?) to integrate this codec in the OS (and gave no visibility about
that for a near future).
So, adding a transcoding feature allowing to convert ALAC (or whatever
the file format is) to FLAC -which is supported for example- 'on the
fly' during music synchronization would be really nice.
I guess a few open source transcoding engines can be found on the net
so the tool may simply call them depending on the file format, that
would be easier to integrate...
Best regards
first of all, thank you for this application, this is a good work.
I would like to suggest an improvement : the ALAC format is not
currently supported on Android devices and, even if ALAC source code
has recently been released by Apple, the Android team did not plan
(yet?) to integrate this codec in the OS (and gave no visibility about
that for a near future).
So, adding a transcoding feature allowing to convert ALAC (or whatever
the file format is) to FLAC -which is supported for example- 'on the
fly' during music synchronization would be really nice.
I guess a few open source transcoding engines can be found on the net
so the tool may simply call them depending on the file format, that
would be easier to integrate...
Best regards
Jaran Nilsen
Jan 21, 2012, 4:30:46 AM1/21/12
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Hi,
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Jaran Nilsen
the transcoding feature has been something people have been asking for since the day Notpod first launched as iTunes Agent. It's a good idea in some ways, but it's also something I am not planning on implementing for a couple of reasons:
1. The majority of users have devices that support the music they've downloaded, so a transcoder would be for a small user base.
2. There are already a lot of tools out there for converting music between different formats.
3. The time I have available for working on Notpod is better spent on improving the app and adding functionality in other areas.
That being said, Notpod is open source and freely available for anyone to modify. If you, or anyone else, would like to spend some time adding transcoding functionality I would obviously be happy to consider merging any patch.
Jaran
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Armoret
Jan 21, 2012, 9:29:39 AM1/21/12
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Hi,
sure, I understand and you're right about the point 1.
Nevertheless, the fact is that if you have to convert files, you would
prefer an automated process than manually calling a conversion tool
each time you want to update your music player.
If you consider adding a feature for calling an external script (a
single command line) before the final copy of a file to the
destination drive, that would allow people to do all processing they
may need. That's what some other tool provide (downloaders) for
calling, for example, a virus scan on files on the fly.
For example, for my need I would like to call a conversion tool in
command line like this one (fake example):
"c:\program files\illustrate\dBpoweramp\coreconverter.exe" -infile="$
{infile}" -outfile="${outfolder}\${outfilename}.flac" -
convert_to="flac" -V 2
The only thing is to allow a call to an optional external tool by
letting people typing their own command line and providing to the
command line the source file name (full name and name without
extension), the source folder, the target folder.
If Notpod had been developed in java, I would have add this in a few
minutes... Unfortunately, learning the C# and the MS development
framework may take much longer...
Best regards.
am
sure, I understand and you're right about the point 1.
Nevertheless, the fact is that if you have to convert files, you would
prefer an automated process than manually calling a conversion tool
each time you want to update your music player.
If you consider adding a feature for calling an external script (a
single command line) before the final copy of a file to the
destination drive, that would allow people to do all processing they
may need. That's what some other tool provide (downloaders) for
calling, for example, a virus scan on files on the fly.
For example, for my need I would like to call a conversion tool in
command line like this one (fake example):
"c:\program files\illustrate\dBpoweramp\coreconverter.exe" -infile="$
{infile}" -outfile="${outfolder}\${outfilename}.flac" -
convert_to="flac" -V 2
The only thing is to allow a call to an optional external tool by
letting people typing their own command line and providing to the
command line the source file name (full name and name without
extension), the source folder, the target folder.
If Notpod had been developed in java, I would have add this in a few
minutes... Unfortunately, learning the C# and the MS development
framework may take much longer...
Best regards.
am
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