SamY wrote: 
> Thanks for this idea! I have configured the players in my A/V room and
> bedroom to sync with their local Castbridge players and it works like a
> charm without any transcoding in the plugin, albeit at the expense of
> doubling the network traffic. However, because I am running LMS, the
> plugin, and all the players on an old RPi B+, choosing the option to
> transcode to mp3 in the plugin results in excessive cpu usage and
> resultant hiccups and delays in the player audio. As always, there is a
> tradeoff in resource consumption and, in my case, I have more available
> bandwidth than I do cpu. Since we are not actually using the CC audio in
> this scenario, I wonder if it would be possible to provide an option to
> not send an audio stream from the plugin at all --- only the metadata.
> Maybe a transcode format of 'Null'? I have no idea if it is possible but
> it would solve the problem of having to choose between wasting bandwidth
> or cpu when using the plugin in this way.

You’d have to send something, always, even if these are silence mp3
frames. I’ll see if there is something I can do but otherwise you know a
used Pi 3 will cost you very little…



LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch,
1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW,
2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi,  Yamaha
WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3
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