Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion HiFi & HT Chat Managing multiple versions of music files

I wish you well. Save me the effort of carrying on with the Samba server and converting it to do the same.

I had started on basically a proxy server for media that could transcode between formats but so far, never got past playing with the Samba source code. It didn't matter where files were stored and in what format, the proxy server simply amalgamated them into file shares that would be accessible from any SMB/Cifs device in whatever format the share was configured as. Transcoding, upsampling and theoretically apodising would happen in (near) real time, caching popular files if needed. It would later be enhanced to do same with internet feeds, allowing any internet feed to be seen by any SMB/Cifs aware device, including Video feeds.