marcoc1712 wrote: 
> That's an old story...
> We could discuss it once again or admit that someone is feeling better
> with wav, as I do with all of my players (classic, duet, SB+ and
> squeezelite on various hw and OS) and that's why I wrote squeezelite-R2
> and C-3PO.
> 
> Flac is indeed very good for storing and tagging, so a convenient
> solution is to store flac, convert it on the fly server side and stream
> pcm to clients. Cost is 50% more of bandwidht, but nowaday, sure, is not
> a big deal even with wifi connected players.

Oh, the bandwidth is not.
But all your traffic over WiFi is AES encrypted, an algorithm that is
much more complex and creates a lot more load than FLAC...



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