radish;348705 Wrote: 
> Transcoding is the process of converting one format to another. In this
> case it's specifically talking about filetypes which the player itself
> doesn't support, and which are converted to FLAC (or something else) by
> the server to allow playback. 
> 
> WMA lossless is not supported by the players (due, I think, to
> licensing issues) and so must be transcoded on the server. Currently,
> that means gapless playback is not possible. I believe the new
> streaming code in 7.3 should fix that (though I'm not 100% sure of
> that).

It would be a waste of bandwidth, but what if it is streamed as WAV
rather than FLAC?  In that case, it would be a case of decoding on the
server and streaming rather than transcode on server, stream, then
decode on player.


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