If your source media is FLAC (which is a good way to store 'source' material, that you might lossy-encode later) then being able to just stream that without any

If your source media is FLAC (which is a good way to store 'source' material, that you might lossy-encode later) then being able to just stream that without any encoding step is handy. Maybe you wouldn't do this if you were concerned about bandwidth, but I'd certainly welcome this in a player to use on my LAN.