[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 182467] Support forced audio format for broken devices

[Michael B. Trausch]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: banshee

Some devices (in particular the Motorola W490 cell phone device which
doubles as an audio player) are very picky about the way their files are
received.  Banshee should support forced file formats with audio
devices.  The W490 in particular requires that it receive 128 Kbps MP3
files, not 64 and not 192—or any other format that podcasts may come in.
It supposedly also supports AAC, though I have not tested its
sensitivity to its formats.

In any event, the only workaround that I have is to manually transcode
the files into a format that the device will play, and then send /that/
file to the phone.

Note that Banshee *does* support transcoding from a format that the
phone claims NOT to support into the proper MP3 format.  However, if the
file is already in MP3 format, regardless of the bitrate or so forth, it
will remain without transcoding.  This may perhaps be due to the
assumption that transcoding from a format to another (same) format will
lose some quality—and this assumption is correct, of course—but the
option should be there to force this behavior as a possibility just in
case it is necessary, such as it is for the Motorola W490.

** Affects: banshee (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Support forced audio format for broken devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182467
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