Some sort of filter based filesystem

[Fabian Keil]

Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net> wrote:

> What would be nice, is some kind of nullfs-like read only filesystem that 
> would send all files through a configurable filter when opened. That way I 
> could put all my music in FLAC format on hdd, and then, when I wanted to 
> transfer some tracks to my portable player, I could grab the files from 
> the ogg-directory. Or when I wanted to burn to CD-A, I could grab 'em from 
> the wav-dir. 
> 
> Is something like this available somewhere? 

IIRC HURD has this feature.

> Or how about some other solution, not file system based?

You could modify your desktop environment.
Doesn't GNOME or KDE have a similiar feature to
get encoded files out of CDDA?

Fabian
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