Sample frequency and gapless rendering

[Pastim]

Two questions.

I have some 96/192 flacs that I can play on one of my players but not the other (due to player limitations). Is there any chance of including downsampling as an option in future?

Now minimserver has the ability to stream, is there any chance of developing the server to also act as a basic renderer (controlled by an external control point), outputting not to an audio device, but to the streamer, so the server/renderer behaves like a radio station? If this could be done, any player could play a media library gapless by playing the stream instead. I have one player that tries to play gapless and almost succeeds, but not always, and another that can't do gapless at all. I already use foobar2000 to do this, but it is a slightly messy solution, and is not native to linux.