[Joona]

My music collection is all in FLAC, and encoding it again would be a waste of space and/or resources. Streaming FLAC is completely fine for me, as I don't have bandwidth caps or such.

I can see myself building a streaming service for myself to listen to my collection while I'm on the move.

[shmerl]

> My music collection is all in FLAC, and encoding it again would be a waste of space and/or resources.

Why so? My collection is also in FLAC, but I always encode it in Opus for actual playback. Hard drive space is cheap, but FLAC will bloat your mobile storage. So the same rule applies. For playback Opus works perfectly. For encoding - FLAC is required.

[stordoff]

It depends what your needs are. I only even listen to my collection of music from my NAS via (W)LAN connected devices, so maintaining a version more suited to mobile devices isn't necessary or useful to me.