What's transcoding?

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Metro
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What's transcoding?

Post by Metro » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:36 am

I have a stupid question:

What's transcoding? I have stored all my music in ALAC on Twonky. When I activate transcoding to MP3 are my ALAC-files replaced by MP3-files?
My current problem is: I have one Sony-Media-Player, which has problems with ALAC. All other media-players are fine with ALAC. I want to keep the ALAC-quality for all the other players and want to play the same music at Sony, too.
Is there an elegant solution for this problem?
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PeeBee
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Re: What's transcoding?

Post by PeeBee » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:54 pm

They are not replaced but a copy is made in mp3 format which is then served to a player that can't the ALAC files.

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