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by Joona 3578 days ago
My music collection is all in FLAC, and encoding it again would be a waste of space and/or resources. Streaming FLAC is completely fine for me, as I don't have bandwidth caps or such.

I can see myself building a streaming service for myself to listen to my collection while I'm on the move.
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shmerl 3577 days ago
> My music collection is all in FLAC, and encoding it again would be a waste of space and/or resources.

Why so? My collection is also in FLAC, but I always encode it in Opus for actual playback. Hard drive space is cheap, but FLAC will bloat your mobile storage. So the same rule applies. For playback Opus works perfectly. For encoding - FLAC is required.

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stordoff 3577 days ago
It depends what your needs are. I only even listen to my collection of music from my NAS via (W)LAN connected devices, so maintaining a version more suited to mobile devices isn't necessary or useful to me.
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shmerl 3577 days ago
Yes, of course. I like using portable players, so FLAC is counter productive there. I see no point in streaming anything if you can just put files on your player and not depend on any connection.
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Joona 3577 days ago
> I see no point in streaming anything if you can just put files on your player and not depend on any connection.

Sure, if that works for you, but my collection is too big to fit on my mobile device (even after encoding it in Opus instead of FLAC).

I suppose my use case is rather rare, but even then, why not give the ability?

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