Do you guys ever plan on offering a way to transcode lossless codecs to a lower bitrate codec (like MP3) so that people can stream their library over the internet (some of us don't have T3s
)? Currently, the only way I have discovered to do this is to use Slimserver and Flac. I can instruct Slimserver to transcode to MP3 at whatever bitrate I need and it will stream my library to me wherever I am.
I am positive that Slimserver could do this with APE files, but from my research, a Perl module needs to be written to extract information like length and bitrate from the APE files. I don't have any knowledge of the Perl language, or of the internals of the APE format, otherwise I would write it. I did notice that someone from Slim Devices posted a question about this on the Monkey's Audio message board a while back... Did anything come of that?
If you guys aren't planning on offering a way to transcode realtime, and an APE Perl module is never developed, then I am kind of stuck with using Flac. The problem is, you have stated that J River will not support Flac. This stance kind of astounds me since you seem to be interested in supporting a wide array of features, devices and codecs. Not to mention that many many devices now support flac.
Anyway, I am hoping to get some direction... If this is something that will be supported in future versions, I'd like to know.
Thanks,
Paul