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Sonos and Plex - lossy transcoding

  • 20 July 2024
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Hi,

I have a NAS that I set up as part of the main reason I purchased a Sonos system - mixing local files with streaming files on playlists. All was great. 

Now that the newest firmware disabled the old app on my Android (a different topic), every time I play a track from my local library it crashes the app. The songs play on the speaker but the app crashes and will no longer open whilst those songs are in the speaker queue (again, another topic).

I read a way around this was to set up a Plex media server. So I have spent all day (literally) doing this.

Now when I play media through the Plex service on Sonos it plays. But Plex web is showing the transcode from FLAC to 271kbps. 

My question is: how to do I force Plex to NOT transcode my FLAC files (or is it even possible)? I can't see a setting on the Plex site. Transcode setting is "Make my CPU hurt"

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