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<body>Hi,<div><br /></div><div>I have icecast2 setup on my home Ubuntu machine for testing. But I need pointing in the right direction.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have a group of flac and mp3 audio files (dj mixes). The flacs should be consistent but the mp3's have varying bitrates from 160 to 256 kbps.</div><div><br /></div><div>Is there a way to make a contiguous stream from these files that does not lose any quality, or is at least a minimal loss of quality ?</div><div><br /></div><div>Or would I have to convert (transcode) the whole thing to a flac stream ?</div><div><br /></div><div>Would appreciate any help.</div><div><br /></div><div>Michael Z Freeman</div></body></html>