Mount a virtual FS to encode on the fly

[dolanor]

Hi,

I use gnome, and back in the day, when you inserted a CD, it would mount a VFS with some pseudo directories (named wav, mp3, ogg, flac, etc) and if you copy/pasted from those dir to your hard drive, then gnome would encode the WAV into the format of your chosing by selecting the right folder.
I thought it was pretty powerful and I think that lackey could do that too. You mount your music source into a music-to-go that would encode on the fly to small files/quality to put on your devices.

What do you think?

[cassava]

I didn't know that! Sounds like it would be a lot of work :-D

On a more serious note though, I have a large library, and would like to only transcode those files that are new or changed. Not sure how that would work with a VFS. Mounting a folder shadows whatever was in the mountpoint folder previously. You'd have to copy from that mountpoint to somewhere else, and then you'd be doing manual work again. In it's own way, it's kinda elegant though. It's kinda like a transcode-on-read view of your music library that could potentially combine with a tool like rsync. But it's not awefully efficient, and I don't think it'd find a lot of uses for that reason alone.