Amarok/Manual/Organization/Transcoding
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
.![](/images.userbase/c/c8/Transcode_here.png)
Transcode Menu
If you chose 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 and a menu interface will pop-up. This interface has been explained [here] , in a previous article. |