@rpedde wrote:
That’s a “can’t do”. Flacs get transcoded to .wav, which don’t have a way to embed album art. So I can’t re-add it to the wav file as I stream it.
FLAC does support metadata including album art.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block
Assuming mt-daapd just streams flac files as is without transcoding and the client fully supports flac then everything should work. Of course that’s a lot of ifs.
There’s an iTunes (or more accurately quicktime) FLAC codec plugin though I’m not sure if it supports the “PICTURE” metadata and I don’t have a tag editor that supports FLAC to test it.
http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
A possibility for “the pipeline” is to enhance the external album art feature so that the FLAC metadata is supported so that art can be added during streaming.