JJZolx;667188 Wrote: 
> Shouldn't the DLNA server of LMS automatically transcode FLAC into
> something playable? Isn't that the whole point?
Actually no, that is not quite the way it works. A DLNA Content
Directory must OFFER all the formats that it is willing to serve, and
the Player selects from this offer list, the one format that it wants
to receive. According to the DLNA specification, the absolute minumum
that a Content Directory server MUST offer is L16 aka LPCM ( This is
something that AndyG for reasons know only to him calls "AIF without a
header" ... ) I don't know the inside of LMS but Whitebear always
offers L16 (because it must), the original format of file in question
(to minimise transcoding overhead), MP3 (but only if you have LAME
installed), and FLAC (since it is the most popular lossless format).

JJZolx;667188 Wrote: 
> I would try disabling AIFF streaming of FLAC (something tells me a
> Microsoft device may not like that). This was newly added to 7.7.0 and
> it takes precedence over PCM streaming.
> Go to Settings > Advanced > Files Types and set the following entry to
> 'Disabled':
> FLAC..............AIFFAs I said before AIFF without a header is L16 (in 
> AndyG-speak) which is
the MUST offer format of DLNA. I suppose turning it off might make
things work -- but for the wrong reasons; it would remove L16 from the
offer list, and thus force the player to select something else...


-- 
AndrewFG

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