Transfer to a device configured with transcoding to a compressed format is useless
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I'm trying to use strawberry to copy my collection to my iPod Mini 2nd gen, which has 3.8 GiB of storage. Strawberry is configured to transcode all music for that iPod to AAC 256Kbps, substantially reducing the size of the files, which are stored as FLACs on my PC. In fact, the total size of the collection I was trying to transfer is 5.3 GiB, but compressed with my specified settings to AAC, takes up a mere 1 GiB.
Here's the issue: When I select this collection of FLACs, and try to transfer them to my iPod, Strawberry indicates that this transfer exceeds total available storage by over 2 GiB (!!). This would be the expected and correct amount if strawberry weren't expected to transcode the collection on transfer to a lossy format, which reduces the total size of the transfer to well under the amount of free space on the iPod's hard drive.
I suspect this is because Strawberry is checking whether the selected music for transfer will fit on the device before transcoding it according to that device's configuration, which sort of defeats the purpose of that feature because, as is, I cannot transfer any larger amount of on the fly compressed files than I would be able to if they remained uncompressed.
I'm using Version 1.2.3 installed as an rpm package on Fedora Linux 41, on KDE Plasma.
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S synth_mania referenced this topic
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I agree, your expected behavior would be the perfect way. But since this is an operation that's not a day-to-day thing, how about a kludgy workaround? Organize your songs alphabetically, and transfer in several smaller batches, based on letters of the alphabet, e.g., A-F, etc.