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Meanwhile, the ChromeOS release of Chromium has had support for FLAC for a long time, but it's still feature gated on mainline Chrome.

4 year old issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93887

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Shouldn't casting FLAC on Chrome to a Chromecast be a priority? I may be a curmudgeon, but I have way too many CDs in storage in those 80 litre Rubbermaid bins that I only ever see as FLAC files on the media server.

The Chromecast can receive and play FLAC since 2015 (I can't find the exact dates on any release notes but [1][2]).

This is about adding audio/flac decoding into Chrome; meanwhile the Chrome -> Chromecast communication is entirely proprietary (notwithstanding the APIs), so Google controls both ends. Since so much of the Chromecast is about handing off content [3], there's little need to implement FLAC encoding in Chrome because the Chromecast can just be told to load the native (original) stream itself.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/3n1to8/chromeca... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/3n3epm/flac_is_...

[3] (Annoying ad warning but good content) http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chromecast-features/

Thanks for bringing me up to date. (1st gen Chromecast)

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