I’m ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.

I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    It’s not really an “App” but tools like ffmpeg or sox or lame can do that no problem. It might take a while to convert your entire collection though … but depending on the size might just take a night or, few nights.

    If you have a ridiculously large collection and do want it “on demand” you could also use e.g. inotify to monitor directories, e.g. ~/Music/ForPhone/ so that any file added to that directory gets converted.

    FWIW I’d use a phone with a microSD card as those days one can get a 1To for less than 100€ so probably no conversion needed even for a large collection.

    Edit: based on a recent conversation I’d try transcoding capabilities of LMS https://github.com/epoupon/lms cf https://lms-demo.poupon.dev/settings from their demo instance

    • zingo@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      LMS is an awesome app. It’s a shame things like Navidrome gets all the attention when LMS is so much better.