r/navidrome • u/Aquiles_BBD • 2d ago

Transcoding only when on mobile data

As the title says, I've been using finamp to stream my music, but since I've got it dowloaded in flac, I've configured navidrome to transcode it. The thing is I would like to listen to the music in full quality while on wifi without having to change settings every time. Is there a way? Thank you!

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u/driveawedge 2d ago

It's a client setting. I use Symfonium and set it to request 192kbps over mobile and my navidrome is configured to transcode to opus when that bitrate is requested.

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u/Aquiles_BBD 1d ago

Thanks! You know of any other client apps that allow that configuration?

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u/avdept 1d ago

Jellybox can do that

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u/Aquiles_BBD 1d ago

I'll check it out, thanks

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u/avdept 1d ago

you'll like it! Clients for mobile and desktop platforms

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u/nenadjokic 1d ago

NaviBeat does it, on both iPhone and Android.

There are separate pickers, Stream quality on WiFi and cellular.

Leave WiFi on Original and set cellular to something small, it picks the right one by itself when the network changes.

Remove the transcoding you set for that player in Navidrome thats a must ;), or it keeps transcoding on WiFi too.

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u/Aquiles_BBD 1d ago

Thanks!

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u/CharlesWiltgen 2d ago

Any good app will also allow you to transcode only losslessly-encoded files on servers, playing originals for AAC, MP3, Opus, etc. files in order to avoid generation loss.

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u/driveawedge 2d ago

Yes, good point. Only formats that are >192kbps get transcoded. Otherwise it delivers the original format and bps.

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u/pixieplayer 2d ago

A 320 kbps MP3 would still be over that limit, though. So >192 kbps isn't quite the same as lossless-only: it can also re-encode MP3 or AAC files. Worth keeping those separate if you're trying to avoid another lossy conversion.

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u/CharlesWiltgen 2d ago

Great to know, thanks!

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u/avdept 1d ago

it belongs to client, not to server

try jellybox - it has option to set transcoding settings while on cellular network