PasTim wrote: 
> In case anyone thinks I have unfairly maligned the C-3PO plugin, it
> turns out that the issue is in LMS, not C-3PO.  For reasons no doubt
> buried in history, LMS does not look for FLAC transcoding rules for
> specific player MACs, although it does look at other rules by MAC.  When
> C-3PO is installed it makes sure that every file conversion rule is
> specified of each and every MAC, rather than just generic rules, because
> it can change the rules for each and every individual MAC.  
> 
> Unfortunately LMS does not look for a specific FLAC to FLAC transcoding
> rule for the UPnP player MAC (or any other MAC, just the generic * MAC),
> even though C-3PO has created one, and so drops down to the FLAC to MP3
> rule which does not specify 'transcode' in the name of the rule. 
> Bother.
> 
> Confused?  You will be, after next weeks episode of SOAP. (Sorry, a
> deliberate mis-quote showing my age....)

Good finding - that one was not easy!



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