Bug 360 - SqueezeBox should support FLAC directly
: SqueezeBox should support FLAC directly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230
Product: SB 1
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Firmware
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Assigned To: Blackketter Dean
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Reported: 2004-06-08 17:04 UTC by Michael Brouwer
Modified: 2004-06-08 22:01 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Brouwer 2004-06-08 17:04:38 UTC
It's would be awesome if the SqueezeBox could decode FLAC (or some other open lossless format) on 
the fly in addition to or instead of MP3 (I could care less if I can stream MP3 to a SqueezeBox since 
even 320kbps MP3 sounds like crap on a High-End system).

This would cut the amount of data required to be streamed to the SqueezeBox in half compared to 
streaming raw PCM (which would benefit wireless users).  You could even transcode MP3/AAC/OGG/
etc. to FLAC on the fly instead of transcoding to 320kbps MP3, so as to avoid having stuff go though 
multiple codecs, thus improving the playback quality of those.
Comment 1 Michael Brouwer 2004-06-08 22:01:25 UTC
Turns out this is already covered in bug 230

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230 ***