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[Couch]

Panel seems to be the ticket. ~750Kbps FLAC converted to 128Kbps mp3 on the fly.

Today I tried using Panel whilst on the road and successfully saved myself some data. Audio I listened to were ~6-800Kbps FLAC. They were converted to 128Kbps mp3 and 'stacked' as I would expect using the conversion cache. (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Stacks#Stacks_as_Cache)

Yay!

I've tried using settings under Gizmo and JRemote for reduction in bandwidth:
JRemote Audio Quality setting does NOT impact bandwidth. (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112086.0.html)
Reduce data usage pls (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,110668.0.html)

I'm still puzzled by why JRemote nor Gizmo worked this way. Are those no longer supported? I recall seeing something about there being an initiative to focus on Panel but have the other two been abandoned - Or am i just missing something? Probably.

My favorite UX as I've stated before is JRemote.

[Hendrik]

Both Gizmo and JRemote should use MP3 at varying Bitrate if you select the appropriate quality in their settings.

[Couch]

Both Gizmo and JRemote should use MP3 at varying Bitrate if you select the appropriate quality in their settings.

That was not my experience.

[Hendrik]

I can only tell you what they actually do, experience is for everyone to gather themselves.

[JimH]

Cache?

[Couch]

I can only tell you what they actually do, experience is for everyone to gather themselves.

Hendrik, my experience is that they actually did not do what you say they actually do. If they work for you great. I hope every one else's experience matches yours and that mine is isolated. All posts I've made on this topic don't get much of a response so perhaps my experience is isolated.

Jim - can you elaborate on 'Cache?'

I've set the location of the cache files to be in the same directory as the source file. Today it worked while using Panel. Previously while on mobile it did not work with JRemote or Gizmo.

[gilesw]

I've been evaluating various streaming apps for remote. JRiver to gizmo always seems to use LAME to mp3. I haven't found an android client that will not request a transcode other than the jriver app itself.

Subsonic uses a 2 stage ffmpeg transcode that lets you use things like replay gain and to my ears sounds better. It also provides a feature to set max bitrates for mobile and for wifi which is handy.

I don't want to shell out for jriver remote only to find it's not a featurefull..

[gilesw]

This looks interesting to leverage aac.

https://alw-audio.co.uk/?p=573

I may be wrong but I can't see a way to customise the transcode in jriver

[Couch]

Hey gilesw, thanks for the replies. I'll check out Subsonic, it looks promising.