It transcodes the audio to stream, but set to FLAC it's a lossless process. The broadcast's bit depth and sample rates and dictated within foobar's config, and all DSP functions are applied. So, I can have foobar200 running / "serving" from another part of the house on say a noisy desktop or laptop device, and the output comes through to a tiny Raspberry Pi 4 on the hifi rack. Whilst also background listening for foobar's audio broadcasts from another device. ![]() This allows you to retain the Pi's innate functionality (e.g I can still use it browse to BBC sounds and play radio 6 via Chromium). It's not linux compatible however but I've found a way to "stream" playback via UPnP to native Raspbian O/S. I tried Volumio and it works fine, but foobar2000 remains my preference of choice for a variety of reasons. I've always kept a small windows based PC near the stereo to accommodate for this, but it's a little noisy and not very neat. Best in class IMO, and whilst my interest in Linux / Raspberry Pi has been growing over the years I've not found an ARM based audio player that compares. It has some great DSP plugins, media library functionality and features (particularly when combined with foobarcon pro android app). ![]() For years I have used foobar2000 as my digital audio player of choice.
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