Request: Vorbis transcoding

[Pepsican]

(12-02-2017 02:35)likescookies Wrote:  I was hoping you'd consider adding Ogg Vorbis as an input option in MinimStreamer.

I'm using Hi-Fi Cast on my Android device to control my Chromecast Audio. Hi-Fi Cast is nice because it supports gapless playback on the Chromecast, but only for FLAC, WAV, mp3, and m4a. Vorbis plays, but not gaplessly. Back a zillion years ago when I ripped my CD library, I ripped titles where gapless mattered to Vorbis, as gapless mp3 wasn't really a thing yet. (I wish before my last computer with a CD drive died I had thought to re-rip those discs!)

Anyway, I've requested that Hi-Fi Cast add gapless Vorbis support, but in the meantime I believe transcoding to WAV would solve the problem, too. Thanks for your consideration.

Isn't FLAC based on Vorbis? What is it you like about Vorbis or need from it? Perhaps FLAC could cater for it?