Changes to WAV transcoding in MinimStreamer 2.1

[simoncn]

(06-12-2025 00:43)Charles7 Wrote:  The user guide says, "The stream ID can be any identifier of your choice or it can be specified as an asterisk (*)."

I installed Minimstreamer version 2.1.1. I set
stream.transcode: *:wav;
but when I played a .flac file, it remained .flac according to BubbleUpNP, rendering to a HEOS device. I had to set
stream.transcode: flac:wav,aac:wav,mp3:wav,*:wav;
in order to get all those files and streams to be transcoded.

Do I misunderstand what an asterisk does?

The stream ID is not part of the stream.transcode property. It appears in a .m3u playlist that contains network streams that need to be routed through MinimStreamer for transcoding or other processing (see this section).

An asterisk in the stream.transcode property is used to specify transcoding settings for network streams of unspecified type (see this section). It does not affect transcoding of local files.