It is (you'd want to store the original in a non-lossy format--WAV or something like that) but re-encoding on the fly's a rather CPU-intensive thing. Try, for chuckles, ripping a track off a CD to a WAV file. Encode it as an MP3 and note both how long it takes and how much CPU power it takes.

If you've only a few different bitrates that you're going to provide the track at, you may find it better to pre-encode the music. If you're not going to do that, you'd be well-served to cache the various bitrate formats of the MP3s, so you only need to encode them once, disk space generally being much cheaper than CPU time.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: hi fi and low fi mp3 playing by Elian
in thread hi fi and low fi mp3 playing by Baz

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