Automatic bitrate reduction when streaming over a low-bandwidth connection

[Limeth]

I store my music in lossless formats such as FLAC, because I can stream it over my home network at high speeds.
On my phone, however, I would like to be able to stream compressed music to lower data usage. It would be nice if, in the settings, there was some kind of "automatic conversion" setting that would allow me to specify the format and/or bitrate of the compressed audio, and then when using the application, I could switch between the original and the compressed format.

[agersant]

Hello (again!).

This is also a highly desirable feature which has been requested a few times. Keeping this open until I get to it. I think the MVP for this would be:

• Transcode FLAC to mp3 only. Add support for more lossless source formats later.
• The API endpoint serving audio files supports parameter(s) for transcoding preferences.
• Users can set transcoding preferences from the web UI (only applies to streaming from the web client).
• Android client has a new persistent setting for transcoding preferences