I spent most of my time tonight ripping more Bach cantatas, and looking for replacements for SimplifyMedia. I think I have found something promising called Subsonic:
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
So far – it does a good job of transcoding the Apple Lossless down to a 256k mp3 stream, and thanks to Chris, I know a couple of us can listen to different things at the same time. Still some organizational issues (it uses the folders iTunes creates – not playlists) that I need to work out… but there is hope again for remote access!!!
Here is my thought, I like the idea but you cannot use it over 3G right?
That’s a good question… I was playing around with it more this morning (to try and solve the organization problems)… Let me know if you want to give it a try and we can coordinate over email.
Were you using 4.0 beta or 3.9? I tried to download this and throw it at my iTunes folder but it would not transcode anything that was Apple Lossless at all.
I’m using 3.9. I have been hoping to get a Universal Binary together that will take care of all library dependencies to send to the developer, hopefully I can get to that today. If there is a problem with the transcoding though, are you seeing failures? Or are you noticing high streaming rates? You also need to tell your ‘Player’ to limit bandwidth. A limit of 192 will transcode a lossless file to 192 before sending I think.
How did you accomplish the trans-coding from ALAC to MP3?
Would you mind sharing some details as I have had no luck so far with several different approaches, including alac.exe.
Thank you 🙂
Hi Bernhard-
It sounds like you are on Windows, so I may not be much help. On OS X, I’ve been using ffmpeg to convert ALAC to MP3 and it works just fine. It looks like there are Windows binaries available here:
http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/
I hope that works for you!
Did you try Didiom? – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/didiom-pro-iphone-edition/id389217682?mt=8
No – I haven’t. For one, I don’t have (and probably never will) have an iPhone. Subsonic has been working wonderfully and has let me keep using iTunes easily for ripping and organizing. Thanks for the link though… looks like a promising project!