Compressed DSD support

[simoncn]

Thanks for this. I understand what you are proposing for how WavPack support could be added to MinimServer.

Adding support for a new file format is a considerable amount of work requiring reading the file format to extract audio data, tag information and embedded artwork. In the case of WavPack this would require reading APEv2 tags, which aren't currently supported by MinimServer.

Playing a WavPack file using transcoding to DSF in real time with a combination of the WavPack decoder and FFmpeg might be possible but would require significant changes to the trancoding pipeline in MinimStreamer. It might be difficult to make this combination work correctly for smooth playback in real time and it would be difficult or impossible to support exact real-time seeking to any point in the track, whch works for all currently supported audio formats.

All this adds up to a considerable amount of work that would be needed with possible technical issues that could only be discovered after much of the work has been done.

MinimServer supports industry standard audio formats that are widely supported by network streamers. From everything I have been able to find, WavPack has little or no support in streamer devices.

For all these reasons, I don't have any plans to add WavPack support to MinimServer/MinimStreamer.