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What Does "Convert Audio If Necessary" Mean?

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stanzani:

--- Quote from: bob on October 07, 2011, 03:32:57 pm ---Convert if Necessary/Needed depends on the context.
In DLNA it depends whether or not the codec of the file can be played to a DLNA device without conversion it also to some degree depends on the on the device template chosen (the various media containers/codecs for the PS/3 and Xbox 360 that are supported over and above the baseline required DLNA support are handled without conversion if possible).

In the client options of library server it means convert to the selected codec whenever the file to be sent is not of that codec already.

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How do I chose a device template? I'd like to convert into mp3 when I listen outside home using a data connection under payment to save bandwith: please suggest

thanks

bob:

--- Quote from: stanzani on January 31, 2017, 09:48:12 am ---How do I chose a device template? I'd like to convert into mp3 when I listen outside home using a data connection under payment to save bandwith: please suggest

thanks

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Depends on what you are using to get the music from MC outside your home.

stanzani:

--- Quote from: bob on January 31, 2017, 12:34:50 pm ---Depends on what you are using to get the music from MC outside your home.

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JRemote or BubbleUPnP
Thanks

bob:

--- Quote from: stanzani on February 02, 2017, 05:53:25 am ---JRemote or BubbleUPnP
Thanks

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With JRemote on iOS you can choose to transcode to low, medium or high sample rate MP3 which will determine how much bandwidth you use.
I've never used bubble remotely since you have to set it up manually since ssdp doesn't go over WAN connections (although I suppose you might be able to configure a vpn to do that).
Anyway bubble uses the DLNA server only so you'd use the existing generic template and name the new server as outside and tell it to always convert to mp3 (you can choose the bitrate).

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