Configure Logitech Media Server To Do Native Playback

[a.dent]

Previously I was using LMS that's running on another computer. Now I've moved back to a single machine for LMS and Squeezelite, I've finally done this myself, and to me, this is a positive change.

LMS is no longer transcoding wav to flac with 0 compression when streaming to Squeezelite. Seems to sound better with a more organic feel to it.

Seems logical, since everything resides on the same single machine, transcoding to flac (with checksum) doesn't really have any extra benefits since it's not really "going the distance".

For the future ISO release I'd be implementing this as the default setup now (except for DSD which can do both).

As you probably know I use a Mac mini as server running LMS or Roon Core. I'm using this as I often use HQPlayer to transcode to DSD 128.

This is one area of LMS that I've always had trouble with. I've never been sure from the file settings what is actually streaming. So you are saying that WAV, ALAC, AIFF are all transcoded to FLAC before being sent out via ethernet.

Can LMS be set to convert to and stream as WAV to Squeezelite on my Snakoil OS machine? There should be no problem with ethernet speed because DSD streams flawlessly.