This but in general this isn't how audio APIs are structured. Some apps would do their own decompression, for example. Some may want to do some additional proce

This but in general this isn't how audio APIs are structured. Some apps would do their own decompression, for example. Some may want to do some additional processing on the PCM data as they play it. In general, all related APIs and apps are built with the expectation that decompression happens locally on the device. It would be a massive undertaking to change that.