Transcode to multiple formats

[simoncn]

(27-04-2014 11:27)simbun Wrote:  Personally I was only thinking for local files, but you're right, ideally you'd want to cover all the bases - although generally I think other source options will be of lower quality, so should be more supported and will benefit less from any "upconversion".

Listnening to BBC Radio 3 (AAC 320 kbps) transcoded to wav24 by MinimStreamer might change your view about this.

Quote:My only concern was the granularity of what could be presented in the response metadata. If it were simply WAV / FLAC / MP3 you'd lose the ability to offer both 16 and 24 bit WAV, without going down the route of having to create profiles for individual equipment, which starts to become messy.

The normal way for control points to make this choice is via the MIME type. I don't know of any control points that would differentiate between 24-bit WAV and 16-bit WAV (for example). This is because the UPnP protocol provides a way for the renderer to advertise its capabilty to play WAV files, but not to say whether it supports 16-bit or 24-bit WAV.