128kbps mp3s are terrible
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Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for - but subsonic/airsonic/etc. can do on-the-fly conversions when downloading to mobile devices. There are several mobile apps available that will cache files locally as well.
Can you stream from your pc? I set up Jellyfin and Tailscale, and all my music (and movies and tv shows) are on my computer, accessible from anywhere.
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not automatic but simple enough and very efficient; I'd use ffmpeg
It would be simple to throw a script together that would take a flac or whatever as input, reencode to whatever with ffmpeg, then move the result to a specific location.
I don't know about automatic, but I also have music locally on my phone after moving away from streaming services.
I use fre:ac to convert from FLAC to MP3, and then just save it in a separate folder. Then when I'm done I move the folder to the phone and delete it from the computer so I just have FLAC on my computer.
Not automatic, but that's how I usually do it.
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You can use Plex to stream music from your own server. The mobile app is called Plexamp, and it’s pretty great.
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Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It's not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It's an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.
OTOH if you're happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg would be a better bet.
PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists "Devices" and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn't able to test that here.
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