MinimServer w/Bubble UPnP Won't Play FLAC

[Pepsican]

(07-09-2017 00:08)funkyblimp Wrote:  I've come to the embarrassing conclusion that the root cause of this problem is the 1Mbps upload speed on my home internet connection.

Sad but true, but they say confession is good for the soul.

A few notes.

1) You say that MinimServer transcodes FLAC to WAV? Have you checked the settings in MinimWatch for this? If it is turned on then you uncompress your signal before you send it out to your phone. In other words, you go from around 900 kbits to 1411kbits. It would be better to leave FLAC as FLAC given that Android can natively decode FLAC. In fact, you may even choose to store your FLAC files with the highest compression (8) to limit bandwith as much as possible.

2) Internet speeds are typically advertised inclusive of any overheads to keep the connection going. Your 1mbps upload is therefore even less than that.

3) FLAC was actually designed with streaming in mind. Lossles streaming services like TIDAL, Qobuz and Deezer use FLAC to stream.