philippe_44 wrote: 
> The ways LMS works is that when a format/codec is self-describing (i.e.
> in the data sent there is sample size, rate ...) then it does not send
> such information to the player, it is up to it find it in the data. With
> PCM, there is no such "metadata" so it then sends this information.
> Hence flac is 255,255,255 :-)
> Having said that, it is true that the version now does not REMOVE the
> flac header when there is one, but the option controls if a header shall
> be INSERTED when there is none. I did a proto version that was doing the
> removal when the "no header" option was selected, but I never published
> it because I thought that a flac file with a proper header (made by a
> flac encoder) would always be accepted, when streamed, by any player.
> The pause/unpause was a different story where LMS creates its own flac
> file "on the fly" (using sox or any other transcoder) and this is where
> PasTim had so many issues. 
> 
> What I'll do is the folllwing: if this is not an issue with HTTP
> encoding options, then I'll put my hands on a CR-N755 and solve it for
> you :-)

Progress (of sorts). 
If I omit flc altogether and opt for pcm, mp3 @ 48000 my 24 bit FLACs
play but as MP3s @ 16/48 !!! That says that LMS is transcoding them but
won't do PCM. A question for Michael I think at a later stage.
Playing FLAC as FLAC is the objective so I will carry on fiddling.



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