Is lossless Jukebox'ing possible?

[flacflac]

Hi there,
I love the new version of Subsonic! Thank you Sindre.

QUESTION THOUGH: I have a fairly decent stereo setup and have an optical output from my server. Is there a way to have the Jukebox audio go lossless (source is FLAC, although I don't care if this would need to be "transcoded" to WAV to make this happen)?

I would still like actual STREAMING of data to happen via downsampling to VBR MP3 - any way to do this?

Thank you.

[sindre_mehus]

Sorry, the library I use for audio decoding (http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/javalayer.html) doesn't support FLAC.

[flacflac]

Thanks for the reply, Sindre. Yet, at some point the FLAC files must be transcoded to be played through this library, right? Would it be possible to simply play from a wav prior to making it generate an MP3? Or am I missing something here.

[sindre_mehus]

Hm, maybe I was a bit quick. I'll check if it's possible to decode FLAC with the JLayer library.

If it supports WAV decoding, that would also work.

I'll do some investigations.

[lefko]

Any word on this? I would be interested in that too.

[flacflac]

Hi Lefko,

Sindre got this to work in a later build - I am using that on my server at this moment. The only problem is still that the playlist stops after the first track. I am unsure what the status on this problem is, but I don't believe Sindre got around to fixing this issue yet. So, lossless audio definitely works and it *greatly* reduced usage of my CPU, but without the ability to play back whole playlists it is unfortunately not very useful at this point.

Maybe Sindre could let us know whether we can expect a little bugfix any time soon?

Thank you.

[isawdrones]

I'm interested in this as well. Does this help?

http://jflac.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,
-adam