MP3FS

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NAME

mp3fs - mounts and transcodes FLACs to MP3s on the fly

SYNOPSIS

mp3fs [OPTION]... FLACDIR MP3DIR

DESCRIPTION

The mp3fs(1) command will mount the directory FLACDIR on MP3DIR. Thereafter, accessing MP3DIR will show the contents of FLACDIR, with all FLAC files transparently renamed and transcoded to MP3 format upon access.

OPTIONS

-b, -obitrate=RATE

Set the bitrate to use for encoding. Acceptable values for RATE are any which are allowed by the MP3 format. According to the manual for LAME, this means:

For sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz, RATE can be among 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, and 320.

For sampling frequencies of 16, 22.05, and 24 kHz, RATE can be among 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, and 160.

When in doubt, it is recommended to choose a bitrate among 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, and 320. If not specified, RATE defaults to 128.

-d, -odebug

: Enable debug output. This will result in a large quantity of diagnostic information being printed to stderr as the program runs. This option will normally not be used. It implies -f.

-f

: Run in foreground instead of detaching from the terminal.

-h, --help

: Print usage information.

--quality, -oquality=QUALITY

: Set quality for encoding, as understood by LAME. The slowest and best quality is 0, while 9 is the fastest and worst quality. The default value is 5, although according to the LAME manual, 2 is recommended.

-s

: Force single-threaded operation.

-V, --version

: Output version information.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006-2008 David Collett and 2008-2010 Kristofer Henriksson. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.

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