Re: Airtime manual
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Ofir,

    > I've just tested Airtime after removing lame and only installing libmp3lame0
    > and it works fine. I was able to stream airtime.mp3.

    Thanks, I'll update the manual.

    > is there other aspect of the app that might have been affected
    > by that?

    At the moment I don't think Airtime needs to call lame directly. It was
    proposed that Airtime might transcode files automatically on import, to
    meet a predefined standard, but there are quality reasons for not doing
    that. If you're going to lossy encode, e.g. for an Icecast stream
    because of bandwidth limitations, it's best to only do that once, and in
    a way that doesn't compromise the quality of the archive.

    Cheers!

    Daniel