I like to keep my audio in FLAC on my computer, but I also have an iPod and a myTouch, neither of which supports FLAC. Currently I'm still using Amarok 1.4 because if offers on-the-fly transcoding, so any format conversions are transparent as far as I'm concerned.

I haven't been able to find any recent information about on-the-fly transcoding for Amarok 2. I found some very old discussion where it was suggested this would be built in rather than being made as a plugin, but I can't find anything that says it ever was built in.

Is this still on the horizon? Is there anything I can do in the meantime short of converting my computer's entire library to a supported format?

I would also like to hear about this feature, as a lack of it makes iPod support rather useless for me atm, since most of my collection is in FLAC..

Congrats to the developers for the great 2.2 betas though

+1 sorely missing since transkode hasn't been ported either

++1 because also using musepack almost exclusively on desktop.

aapgorilla wrote:+1 sorely missing since transkode hasn't been ported either

Well, that exactly is the problem. Somebody needs to port transkode to KDE4. So this doesn't exactly depend on the Amarok team, sorry.