> On a low-powered system, transcoding causes burps in the music.

I cannot begin to imagine how low-powered this system would have to
be. A flakey wireless connection, maybe. A slow disk with some other
concurrent accesses, maybe. Not the transcoding. Both FLAC and AAC run
fine on battery-powered devices.

Incidentally the SB2 and up have a far larger buffer - you'd have to
torture the server to get dropouts.

Looks to me you want to solve a problem you have with an SB1 and an
underpowered server by adding a feature no-one else needs to the
firmware of an SB2, which however wouldn't exhibit the problem in the
first place.

> Most "average users" likely use WMP or iTunes.

Might be, since when is that a reason to do the same? Most likely your
"average user" doesn't know what a Squeezebox is, either. Hell,
average users tend to have their Windows machines chock-full with
spyware ...

One lossy and one lossless format in firmware is enough, provided the
server gains the ability to seek through these files and to transcode
radio streams.

C.
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