Transcoding combinations UPnP and Internet Radio

[Pastim]

Simon, thanks very much for your detailed response. I'll need to go through it in more detail after some sleep, but I have two initial questions.

1. I had understood, and indeed thought I had read on a post somewhere, that for an Internet Radio (not a UPnP device) no transcoding ever took place. Am I wrong? The minimradio sites seem to make no mention of it.

2. Why is it useful for the behaviour to be so different depending on whether the codec is explicit or determined by Minimstreamer? Why should a user care how the codec is determined? Surely if it is aac (for instance) the I would want it treated in the same way however this was discovered? It seems to me to make life quite complicated to no apparent benefit. What have I missed?