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

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Support forced audio format for broken devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182467
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Status in Banshee Music Player: Fix Released
Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
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.