For latency discussion - see some of the early post in the original
"Announce:Wavinput" thread. 

> 
> Technical question if anyone knows, what determines when FLAC is used?
> 
> 

Principally the setting for the wavin filetype. If FLAC was disabled
then SC would use WAV.  If Flac and WAV were disable then SC would
transcode into MP3.

However, there are some other considerations. If the target player
cannot play Flac (e.g. SB1) then WAV would be used. Also if bit rate
limiting was enabled then MP3 would be used. 

> 
> When I play wavIn:0, sometimes it shows "0, wavin", sometimes "0, wav"
> and sometimes "o, flc" -- without me changing the ultimate sound player
> I'm using... and I'm certainly not playing flac files... a mystery.
> 
What is displayed is mainly cosmetic for user consumption and the
plugin can override it.  For example the "0" is the bit rate - and
clearly 0 is not correct.  I suspect some of the variations would
result from using "Tune-in" vs a Favorites entry and if you have been
playing around with various players and/or File Types settings. 

Normally I would expect the wavin audio stream would be converted to
Flac before being sent to an SB3. With no loss in audio quality,  this
is most efficient use of bandwidth and  maximises use of SB3 buffer
space.  

The best way to be sure what is exactly happening is
1. Use Task manager (or Process Explorer) and see what applications are
running. 
2. Enable logging player.source to INFO and look at the log files.


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