Does anyone know if its feasible to convert PCM/FLAC files to some compressed format (mp3/wma/ogg, not picky), with the conversion process running on Azure?
An Amazon EC2 based solution would be trivial, as 3rd party libraries could be installed; but what about Azure?
Unless you need admin privileges (like to install a codec or something), this shouldn't be a problem in Windows Azure. I bet you can find a standalone command-line tool for this that you can just run in Windows Azure.
That being said, I haven't specifically seen this done yet, so there might be difficulties I'm not anticipating. :)