Re: audioconvert! the new super script to convert audio files! would you like to include it?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Rodney Dawes wrote:

> Having said that, I've not yet seen the original e-mail, and have not
> googled to find the software in question, so have yet to try it.
> However, I still am not sure that nautilus scripts is the best UI for
> doing something which may be so important to the user. Converting the
> audio when the user chooses to sync it to their hardware device, in
> the music library application, is definitely not the way to do it
> though. I have a 60GB iPod, and would certainly not want to wait for
> the amount of time it would take to convert 60GB of my OGG files, to
> MP3. I also would not want the software to assume that the iPod does
> not support OGG, either. It may not do so officially, but I do intend
> to install iPodLinux on it, so that I can just use OGGs directly.

The plan is that eventually hal can tell you what formats the
device support.


> -- dobey

--behdad
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