Configure Logitech Media Server To Do Native Playback

[agent_kith]

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.

Not too sure about ALAC and AIFF as I don't have those files. But yeah WAV is being transcoded into FLAC compression 0 (which some reckon is the same as WAV)

You can find out what LMS is doing by playing ALAC/AIFF, then SSH into the machine, and run

Code:

ps aux|grep sox

See if you get anything. If no results, try just ps aux and look again.
 

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.

Yes the walkthrough at the top of the page explains the steps to always use native for each codec. This is something I'd do for the next ISO release also.

Not quite sure why it's been converted into FLAC, perhaps this codec is better suited for streaming? 

I'd do more checks later tonight when I can and check what is running when I'm using WAV and it's streaming in WAV.