Transcoding with Minimserver

[simoncn]

(15-06-2013 11:19)bbrip Wrote:  Thats interesting. Unfortunatly being an "Alien" I am not entitled to enjoy high qual BBC streaming but I'll certainly try this out on Linn radio once the feature is avail.

bbrip

I've just tried this with Linn radio, and the results are quite disappointing. The sound quality of the Linn Classical 320k MP3 stream is inferior to the BBC Radio 3 320k AAC stream, and transcoding the Linn 320k MP3 stream to WAV24 doesn't make any significant difference to sound quality.

Given this, I'm not convinced that supporting MP3 to WAV transcoding in MinimServer would be useful. With Linn radio, the transcoded WAV stream doesn't contain the "now playing" metadata, so the overall listener experience is diminished rather than enhanced.