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Disable transcoding in mt-daapd on NSLU2

I am running mt-daapd (Firefly Media Server) under Debian on my NSLU2, which works pretty well, except for ogg files.

mt-daapd will try to convert everything to wav before streaming, which do not work out of the box, probably because ffmpeg is not install. I do not want to stress the CPU by installing and using ffmpeg, instead I disable the transcoding by changing/adding the below to /etc/mt-daapd.conf:

# never_transcode (optional)
# Comma separated list of formats to never transcode.
never_transcode = ogg,mp3,flac

Now everything work using Rhythmbox as client and the NSLU2 is not overloaded. Making this change obviously requires that the client can decode ogg, mp3 and flac!