Transcode to multiple formats

[simoncn]

(22-04-2014 20:49)simbun Wrote:  I've only been playing with Minimserver for a few weeks now but have already retagged my music now I have a server flexible enough to support it, so I'm very pleased with the software.

I've played around with a few other servers over the last six months or so, and the only thing minimstreamer is missing is the ability to present multiple formats to renderers.
Most of my music is in FLAC, and minidlna presents it in both FLAC and MP3 format, meaning I can play the music at the best quality supported by the particular piece of equipment I'm sending it to.

I don't know if this is off spec, but the few renderers I have support it, so I was wondering whether this was in the plans?

Congratulations on one of the best music servers out there.

Thanks for this suggestion and for the positive feedback on MinimServer and MinimStreamer.

This is a possible future enhancement. For local music files, the implementation should be fairly straightforward because the source type and all supported transcoding target types are known at browsing time and MinimServer can determine which resource URLs ito include in the Browse response metadata (the untranscoded URL and/or one or more transcoded URLs).

For network streams, the source type and supported transcoding target types aren't known until playing time, which raises some fairly complex issues about how the set of valid resource URLs could be determined at browsing time. I will need to give this aspect some further thought.