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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

When I was putting everything together, I never ran across anything that 
would suggest ices was able to transcode to another format. You are 
right that it is converting on the fly already, since my media is a wide 
variety of bitrates and I wanted to provide a consistent playback.  If 
there is a flag in the config files that would push the output as ogg, I 
have no trouble with that, but I didn't see anything.

I only wish I could also normalize the volume on the fly... there seems 
to be a wide swing between different tracks, and that always annoyed me.

On 11/20/2014 12:41 AM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> Converting the files isn't needed at all. stream and input file 
> formats don't correlate too much. If you are sending at fixed bitrate 
> (again bitrate != quality) with MP3 you are already transcoding on the 
> fly. If you do so you could also transcode to another codec. Doesn't 
> make any difference.