libwinmedia VS freac

GStreamer backend for the just_audio package - Finamp uses the awesome just_audio package for audio playback. Currently, it uses the OS’s native system for audio playback (ExoPlayer on Android and AVQueuePlayer on iOS/macOS). These work, but there are a few annoying limitations, especially on iOS. For example, iOS doesn’t support Vorbis and OPUS (well, they do but only in the .caf container that literally nobody uses). GStreamer paired with its ffmpeg plug-ins should play pretty much every format, even weird stuff like DSD audio. A GStreamer backend would also be great for desktop support - just_audio only supports Linux and Windows through the libwinmedia package, which has been discontinued by the owner for reasons that I agree with, such as it using a whole webview for Linux support. It should be noted that I’ve only really done background reading on this project, so it may not work out entirely. For example, if it turns out that stuff like AirPlay doesn’t work, I may not use this backend for iOS

https://github.com/harmonoid/libwinmedia is discontinued and only works on limited number of devices https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_vlc_player is too performance-heavy and causes UI lag spikes in my use-case

Seconding basically everything that's been said here, but should you ever find yourself in need of a good file converter, I like and use fre:ac (www.freac.org), an open source Swiss army knife for audio formats.

That's a lot of steps! I believe there's FLAC rippers for Tidal, that may make it easier to use WebMD or SonicStage. I use https://www.freac.org/ to convert from FLAC (which I rip my CDs in) to WMA Lossless (which SonicStage can use) - Web Minidisc can use FLAC directly, as well.

You might want to use a tool like https://www.freac.org for the conversion.

I use fre:ac personally - https://www.freac.org

A lot of bootlegs are already ripped and available. wondering if the ones you have are the ones that are already available. you can download https://www.freac.org/ and rip em.

https://www.freac.org/ my go-to for a loooong time

What I was doing when I want 352k AT3+ files was to use https://www.freac.org/ to convert FLACs to WMA Lossless files which SonicStage 4.3 can read, then hook up the HiMD machines, pick the songs/album/whatever, and transfer them at 352k. It does the transcode on the fly but you can pick "fast" vs. "quality" modes, either should really be good but I did "quality" because the 10-year-old computer I'm doing it on should be 2-5x faster than an average computer in 2007 when SS4.3 was released so it's not that big of a deal.

If you need to convert FLAC/AAC/ALAC/whatever to a format SonicStage supports (LPCM WAV or lossless WMA) - you can use a tool like the Free Audio Converter (FRE:AC).

For lossless or high-resolution audio, I use a tool called FREAC to convert FLAC/ALAC and anything else SonicStage itself can't use to WMA Lossless, which gets you both proper metadata support and CD quality lossless files.

fre:ac does pretty much everything you could want: https://www.freac.org/