philippe_44 wrote: 
> ah crap... I need to investigate more. Difficulty is that although flac
> is fully streamable w/o header, some "players" want a header, still. MP3
> does not suffer from that.
> 
> I also do my tests with fb2k so I’ll add VLC systematically now

I think I'll have to give up on this one. There are too many issues with
a flac continuous stream. 

Normally, flac is supposed to be streamable because it has paquets
delimiters like mp3 and each paquet is self-contained, which makes
headers optional. Unfortunately, most players I've tried want headers.
Then the ones that can just work with paquets can't accept sampling rate
change in the stream (which will happen as this is a continuous stream
but with different tracks - again mp3 allows that). Then when playing
local files, LMS might not transcode them (flac) and in that case they
have a full flac header which confuses even more players that can accept
raw paquet (they can't recover flac sync properly). 

On paper, this should work according to flac specs, but in practice it
does not



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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