[Feature Request] FLAC Support for Plex/Web

Feature Suggestions
1

I’ve noticed that when I play FLAC content through Plex/Web it transcodes it into MP3, presumably since that is the best supported format for browsers. Of course, I’m not sure what bitrate it is transcoded to, but I’d prefer if it just played the FLAC in the browser.

I was wondering if the team had considered integrating a JavaScript FLAC decoder for the Plex/Web client. You can find one here and there may be more.

This may be not be ideal for all browsers, but I’m playing this on the Plex Server itself, so decoding should be less work than transcoding, even when done in the browser. I imagine not everyone would want to play FLAC in their browser, so it could be toggled with a setting under Web > Player > Audio & Subtitles.

2

Yes please, I would like to listen to flac on my Chrome browser instead of having it transcode to MP3.

3

I’d like this too.

4

This would be great to have. I don’t like the plex media players as the only way to get flac to play. making a playlist or searching for something isn’t as clean as the browsers layout.