[mythtv-users] Auto music transcode for UPNP clients

[Dave]

Here was my problem:
I store my music in a lossless format (flac), but may inexpensive UPNP
clients understand MP3 only.

Which left me with a few options:
1. Convert my entire music collection to MP3 (never!)
2. make another copy of my music collection in MP3, served by some other
UPNP server (ugg)
3. Find a better solution

3 was the obvious choice…
So, I ended up using MP3FS to "expose" my music collection as mp3s in a
separate directory on my server without taking up extra disk space.
Next, I created a patch for the UPNP server in myth to be able to select
which format to send based on the IP address of the UPNP client.

So, to use this functionality:
1. Install/setup MP3FS (brilliant!) http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/  (or
create your own alternate directory structure)<http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/>
2. Apply patch
3. Add the following settings to the settings database:
a. UpnpAltMusicHosts= a comma seperated list of the UPNP client IPs that
need MP3 format (ex: 192.168.1.132,192.168.149)
b. UpnpAltMusicLocation= the directory where MP3FS is set to (ex:
/var/local/media/musicmp3256)
c. UpnpNormalMusicExtension= the "regular" file extension of you music files
(flac for me)
Here are the patches:
Myth head (rev 13718): trac #3639
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3639<http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3639>
Myth 20 fixes branch patch:
http://davetech.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/mythtv-upnp-enhancement/

Hope others find this useful.
Dave
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