NAME¶

mp3fs - mounts and transcodes FLACs and OGGs to MP3s on the fly

SYNOPSIS¶

mp3fs [OPTION]... IN_DIR OUT_DIR

DESCRIPTION¶

The mp3fs(1) command will mount the directory IN_DIR on OUT_DIR. Thereafter, accessing OUT_DIR will show the contents of IN_DIR, with all FLAC/Ogg Vorbis files transparently renamed and transcoded to MP3 format upon access.

OPTIONS¶

-b, -obitrate=RATE

Set the bitrate to use for encoding. Acceptable values for RATE are any which are allowed by the MP3 format. According to the manual for LAME, this means:

-d, -odebug

Enable debug output. This will result in a large quantity of diagnostic information being printed to stderr as the program runs. This option will normally not be used. It implies -f.

-f

Run in the foreground instead of detaching from the terminal.

--gainmode, -ogainmode=MODE

Set mode to use for interpreting ReplayGain tags. The allowed values for MODE are:

--gainref, -ogainref=REF

Set the reference loudness in decibels to adjust ReplayGain tags. ReplayGain software usually defaults to a loudness of 89 dB, but if this is too quiet, a higher value can be set here, causing adjustment of ReplayGain values in tags.

-h, --help

Print usage information.

--log_format, -olog_format=FORMAT

Specify the format to use for log messages, with the following substitutions:

--log_maxlevel, -olog_maxlevel=LEVEL

Set the maximum level of messages to log, either ERROR, INFO, or DEBUG. Defaults to INFO, and forced to DEBUG in debug mode. Note that this does not enable logging; other log flags must be set to specify where to log.

--log_stderr, -olog_stderr

Output logging messages to stderr. Enabled in debug mode.

--log_syslog, -olog_syslog

Output logging messages to the system log.

--logfile, -ologfile=FILE

Set the file to log to. By default, no log file will be written.

--quality, -oquality=QUALITY

Set quality for encoding, as understood by LAME. The slowest and best quality is 0, while 9 is the fastest and worst quality. The default value is 5, although according to the LAME manual, 2 is recommended.

-s

Force single-threaded operation.

--statcachesize, -ostatcachesize=SIZE

Set the number of cached stat entries to store. This is needed for reasonable performance when VBR is enabled. Each entry takes 100-200 bytes of memory. Entries are evicted from the cache in least recently used order.

--vbr, -ovbr

Use variable bit rate encoding. When enabled, the -b or -obitrate options set the maximum bit rate. If enabled, the --statcachesize or -ostatcachesize options are strongly recommended.

-V, --version

Output version information.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2006-2008 David Collett and 2008-2013 K. Henriksson. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.

This manual is copyright (C) 2010-2020 K. Henriksson and may be distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 1.3 or later with no invariant sections, or alternatively under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.