Does Amperfy support ALAC/FLAC on iOS?

[radiosilence]

My navidrome server has a decent amount of ALAC from Bandcamp and various other FLAC albums. Does it support them natively through iOS's audio drivers, or will navidrome have to transcode? I've selected RAW/Original in settings for both streamed and cached music.

[BLeeEZ]

The used audio engine doesn’t support FLAC. Server side transcoding is required for those files.

[radiosilence]

Thanks for your prompt response! Which engine is used? Something based on Core Audio or something custom?

[BLeeEZ]

AVPlayer: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayer

[tehabe]

This answer confuses me, since I tried FLAC and ALAC on my Navidrome server and both formats work with Amperfy without a problem and without transcoding.

I still keep my music in FLAC and ALAC, god alone knows why.