Wouldn't that still potentially affect your LAN's performance? At >1Mbit per stream, it seems they could add up fast. Even on a LAN, I'd want to minimize traffic volumes where possible in most cases.
I'm just curious if this is a matter of convenience, wanting to avoid re-encoding, or if the fidelity is actually critical, and these would be playing back on studio monitor speakers for close scrutiny.
I guess if I were trying to play FLAC and WMA files from a local server, I would typically mount the remote share and use native client-side software to play them, which is typically a more pleasant user experience than browser-based solutions.
Yes, it is wanting to avoid encoding and the associated delay and/or disk space. If I could re-encode and immediately stream with insignificant latency, with a weak CPU, then that might be a reasonable option.
