PasTim wrote: 
> I believe that some of the entries towards the end of convert.conf were
> added after 7.7.x, including the flac transcode entry.  This could, of
> course, be an 'alternative fact' :)

A-ha! Your comment has made me revisit convert.conf and I've finally
remembered the real reason I needed custom-convert.conf a few years ago.
I had to re-read my original posts and Philippe's comments from 2016 but
it's finally clicked again.

So it turns out that LMS was always successfully downsampling a 24/96 or
24/192 file to 48000Hz, but the problem was that the resultant flac file
was still 24 bit.

If you read Philippe's response to my question a few years back -
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103728-Announce-UPnPBridge-integrate-UPnP-DLNA-players-with-LMS-(squeeze2upnp)&p=849692&viewfull=1#post849692
- he said that his plugin could only truncate 24->16 bits on
WAV/AIF/PCM, but not FLAC. Due to my downsampled LMS file still being
FLAC, the plugin wasn't truncating this to 16 bit and Sonos wouldn't
play it.

So the only reason I had to use custom-convert.conf was to convert the
24 bit flac to 16 bit, as uPnPBridge couldn't do it on FLAC files.

Here's the default LMS setting:


Code:
--------------------
    
  flc flc transcode *
        # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
        [flac] -dcs $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav - -t flac -C 0 
$RESAMPLE$ - 
  
--------------------


And here's the custom-convert setting I used to have (note the -b 16
flag to truncate to 16 bit):


Code:
--------------------
    
  flc flc * bb:bb:40:ac:0d:2f
        # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
        [flac] -dcs $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav - -t flac -C 0 
*-b 16* $RESAMPLE$ -
  
--------------------


Final question now for Philippe... does this mean that uPnPBridge is now
able to truncate flac files to 16 bit? If so, that explains why I needed
to do it myself back in 2016, but not now.


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