robroe;371452 Wrote: 
> I'm not sure whether I have understood this correctly, but this would be
> iPeng connecting to Squeezecenter, pulling down/streaming the actual
> FLAC file and decoding it on the iPod, rather than doing transcoding on
> the server? 
> 
> If it is the first would Apple allow a FLAC decoder in an app? I would
> have thought if they did there would be a large number of
> FLAC/Ogg/other players like this by now (maybe there are?). I would
> have thought Apple would turn this down for the same reason that it
> turned down podcaster etc claiming that it duplicates functionality on
> the ipod (well actually just to protect their monopoly, but you know
> where I'm coming from).

You may have a point there.
The question is not one of "duplicate functionality" but more one of
whether there are flac libraries that do not violate Apple's license
agreement (that is: that don't require source distribution).


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