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I've been looking for a certain tool, and haven't been able to it. Perhaps someone here has a suggestion before I attempt to write something myself.
Here's the thing:
At home I have a regular audio setup, and on my server I got MP3 and FLAC files.
Most mobile devices do NOT play FLAC, and if they play FLAC you probably don't want to use flac on mobile because the files get that large. My wife has an MP3 player, I sometimes use my mobile phone as an MP3 player, and in the car I prefer to use an USB stick (got a new Prius Wagon aka Prius +, I know an iPod is supposed to work as well, but I'm not into iTunes).
Another problem is the utter lack of I(C)T 'talent' of my better half. If she touches a fax, the microwave downstairs will crash, you know the type
What I am looking for is something like a restricted version of TotalCommander, on the left side a list of all music files (either FLAC or MP3, in my case all files on the server), on the right side a list of all music files on the inserted USB device (be it her MP3 player, my phone, an USB stick, you name it). What this little program should do is allow to copy files from left to right, and delete stuff on the right. It also should convert FLAC to MP3 on the fly whilst copying. Optional might be recoding those MP3 files that are either too large or in a strange format. (I know some mobile devices don't like certain VBR formats).
Before I start writing such a beast, is there already something simple like this?
If not I think I'll have to start to write something myself. Except for the actual file conversions it's pretty easy I think. If I have to write something myself, does anyone know of a (simple
) DLL / library that would allow me to read FLAC and write MP3?
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