Chrome 56+ / Firefox 52+
Might not work on all OSes
Add the following to /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Profiles/Web.xml within the <Client> section:
<DirectPlayProfiles>
<MusicProfile container="flac" codec="flac" />
</DirectPlayProfiles>Included my Web.xml as an example. I just added <DirectPlayProfiles> to Plex Media Server 1.5.5.3634 stock Web.xml.
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> | |
| <Client name="Web"> | |
| <!-- Author: Plex Inc. --> | |
| <TranscodeTargets> | |
| <VideoProfile protocol="hls" container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac,mp3" context="streaming" /> | |
| <VideoProfile protocol="dash" container="mp4" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac" context="streaming" /> | |
| <VideoProfile protocol="http" container="mkv" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac,mp3" context="streaming" /> | |
| <MusicProfile container="mp3" codec="mp3" /> | |
| <PhotoProfile container="jpeg" /> | |
| <SubtitleProfile container="ass" codec="ass" context="all" /> | |
| </TranscodeTargets> | |
| <DirectPlayProfiles> | |
| <MusicProfile container="flac" codec="flac" /> | |
| </DirectPlayProfiles> | |
| <CodecProfiles> | |
| <VideoCodec name="*"> | |
| <Limitations> | |
| <UpperBound name="video.bitDepth" value="8" /> | |
| </Limitations> | |
| </VideoCodec> | |
| <VideoAudioCodec name="*"> | |
| <Limitations> | |
| <UpperBound name="audio.channels" value="6" /> | |
| </Limitations> | |
| </VideoAudioCodec> | |
| </CodecProfiles> | |
| <!-- When transcoding a multi-channel audio stream inside a video transcode, downmix the audio stream to stereo. --> | |
| <TranscodeTargetProfiles> | |
| <VideoTranscodeTarget protocol="*" context="streaming"> | |
| <VideoAudioCodec name="*"> | |
| <Limitations> | |
| <UpperBound name="audio.channels" value="2" onlyTranscodes="true" /> | |
| </Limitations> | |
| </VideoAudioCodec> | |
| </VideoTranscodeTarget> | |
| </TranscodeTargetProfiles> | |
| </Client> |