[Samba] Automatic conversion of files

[simo]

You might be able to do that developing a vfs module.
Simo.

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:38 +0200, Peter Andersson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am setting up a samba server where i intend to store audio files. Since
> they require quite a lot of disk space i thought of compressing them in
> the flac audio format. The thing is that flac is not supported in many
> programs we use here. So here are my questions:
> 
> 1.) Is it possible to configure samba to display .flac files as .wav?
> 2.) Is it possible to convert the .flac files to wav on the fly when they
> are transfered from the server.
> 
> Basically i want to be able to copy flac, mp3, ogg files to the samba
> server without conversion. From the windows clients they should show up as
> wav files. And when they are copied from the smb server to the windows
> client they will be converted to wav files.
> 
> Any input you have on this will be very appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Peter
> 
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