[einhänder]

hello all,

many people use their lossless backups in different situations respectively try to save their backups in a codec/format that is supported by various players. for an example i do backup my cds in m4a (alac) generally to play it back with my ipod, itunes and of course within xbmc. basically i would prefer flac over any other format if there wouldn't be the downside with apple products lacking support for flac.

therefore it would be a great enhancement to incorporate a feature that would change the container format from wav/flac to m4a on the fly. i could imagine to give the user a possibility to choose the final container format in music-cds settings section.

example layout in music-cd settings section:

1. compression method:
-> lossless | lossy

2. encoder (dependant on compression selection):
-> lossless: wav | flac
-> lossy: vorbis | lame

3. quality (dependant on compression selection, greyed out or not):
-> lossless: greyed out
-> lossy: constant bitrate | highest quality | ...

4. bitrate (dependant on compression selection, greyed out or not):
-> lossless: greyed out
-> lossy: 192 kbps | ...

5. compression level (dependant on compression selection, greyed out or not):
-> flac: 1 | 2 | 3 | ...
-> lossy: greyed out

6. container format (dependant on compression selection, greyed out or not):
-> lossless: wav | flac | m4a
-> lossy: greyed out

the conversion itself could be done with faad and faac as far as i know.
could anyone imagine to have this feature in xbmc?

regards,
einhänder

p.s. a copy of this feature request can be found on trac: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9235