I'm happy that you're continuing to innovate and progress, but I have to say that I'm dissappointed that native FLAC support still isn't (and I'm guessing never will be) supported on the first SB. FLAC support was the reason why I originally chose SlimDevices and when I realized after getting it installed that FLAC wasn't supported natively, I seriously considered returning it. However, I took the risk and this is how its turned out. Other than that and the related inability to seek forwards and backwards, I've been happy. Is there any chance that native FLAC will ever be supported on SB1?
Why is this important to you? Are you running on a wireless network?
On a wired network, especially at 100 Mb/s, the extra network loading of uncompressed PCM is just not significant at all. Nor is the load of the FLAC decoder on the server CPU; here it's just a few percent at most.
There are some times that the squeezebox buffer underruns when the server is doing other things like rebuilding its database, but that could be fixed with some attention to proper priority levels for the various threads that make up the slimserver.
So while it would certainly be nice to have native FLAC decoding, I don't see its omission on the original Squeezebox to be all that much of a problem, at least for the wired model. I do think the new native FLAC decoding plus 801.11g support on the wireless model is a very worthy improvement. I had held off buying a wireless model mainly because of the lack of 802.11g support.
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