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Or you can encode media files directly on your hard drive by selecting <menuchoice>Transcode here</menuchoice>. | Or you can encode media files directly on your hard drive by selecting <menuchoice>Transcode here</menuchoice>. When clicked it will automatically encode the selected files to the default encoding preset. | ||
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| <menuchoice>Transcode With Custom Parameters</menuchoice> || If you choose this , you should have a little bit of encoding knowledge, because you to encode media files to custom formats and settings, provided that you have the required codecs. After you click this a new menu will appear. | | <menuchoice>Transcode With Custom Parameters</menuchoice> || If you choose this , you should have a little bit of encoding knowledge, because you to encode media files to custom formats and settings, provided that you have the required codecs. After you click this a new menu will appear. | ||
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=== Custom Encoding === | |||
Can be done to save space or to make your files readable by a portable music player or a particular software program. | |||
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| '''Menu Item''' || '''Description''' | |||
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| <menuchoice>Back</menuchoice> || Will get you back to the basic '''Transcoding''' menu. | |||
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| Encoder list || The list with all your installed codecs , choose from them to make custom presets . | |||
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| <menuchoice>Transcode</menuchoice> || When clicked will begin the encoding procedure with the selected codecs and parameters. | |||
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| <menuchoice>Cancel</menuchoice> || Exists the '''Transcoding''' menu and returns to the '''Media Sources''' Pane. |
Revision as of 23:09, 18 December 2010
Overview
Transcoding is a new Amarok feature embedded in the 2.4beta1 release. It allows encoding media files to various formats while copying them to your collection. As a word of warning you should be careful when you use this feature as you are working with actual files on your hard drive so a backup is a good idea.
Interface
You can access this feature while you copy files to your collection folder by right clicking a media file then
and a pop-up menu will appear.![](/images.userbase/0/0c/Transcode_local_collection_good.png)
Or you can encode media files directly on your hard drive by selecting
. When clicked it will automatically encode the selected files to the default encoding preset.![](/images.userbase/c/c8/Transcode_here.png)
Transcode Menu
If you choose to copy files to your collection the following menu interface will pop.
![](/images.userbase/3/35/Transcode_1.png)
Menu Item | Description |
If you choose to copy , the selected media files will just be copied to your collection folder without encoding. | |
If you choose to transcode , the selected media files will be coded with the default encoding preset: medium compression , high quality ,Ogg Vorbis (lossy). and a menu interface will pop-up. This interface has been explained [here] , in a previous article. | |
If you choose this , you should have a little bit of encoding knowledge, because you to encode media files to custom formats and settings, provided that you have the required codecs. After you click this a new menu will appear. |
Custom Encoding
Can be done to save space or to make your files readable by a portable music player or a particular software program.
![](/images.userbase/a/a4/Custom_transcode.png)
Menu Item | Description |
Will get you back to the basic Transcoding menu. | |
Encoder list | The list with all your installed codecs , choose from them to make custom presets . |
When clicked will begin the encoding procedure with the selected codecs and parameters. | |
Exists the Transcoding menu and returns to the Media Sources Pane. |