I’ve been looking at Lidarr for when I finish transferring my media server to a new system this month, what I am unsure is how difficult it would be to downgrade my 650 FLAC album library down to 320kbps.
It was great locally, but now most of my listening is remote via Plex (Plexamp/Symfonium) and I have found 320kbps albums to be more seamless than FLAC for my usecase with little difference in quality.
I have yet to add my music library to any of my family members accounts as I am unsure how they would listen to it without plexamp and I’m still considering their options.
The main thing is I was hoping Lidarr could get me a downgraded copy to replace all my library with, does anyone have any experience in this matter?
I know that Radarr/Sonarr don’t like downgrading versions automatically.
beetshas a convert plugin, plusbeetsin general is great. Would recommend. Typically storage is relatively cheap so instead of getting rid of your FLACs, why not transcode them all to a separate folder/library, and point your server at that and not the FLAC library?The storage space is the reason I went all out in quality, but I’ve decided 320kbps is nearly as good while transitioning between songs is instant as apposed to FLAC which is only an extra 1-2 seconds.
It’s not a big deal, but I would like the efficiency improvement before I invite family into my music library.