Feature request: FLAC support

[Susticle]

Thank you very much for this project.

Currently when using audapolis, I often have to convert audio from FLAC format to one understood by audapolis.

It would be great if audapolis would be able to handle this file type directly. :-)

[pajowu]

Quick question: Which do you want:

1. Import FLACs which then get converted into a format audapolis supports automatically, probably a lossy process
2. Directly support FLACs in audapolis, not converting them into another format automatically, but instead working directly on the FLACs file, losing as little quality as possible?

[Susticle]

My use case is currently transcription only so a bit of audio loss wouldn't hurt me.

I don't know how audapolis handles other formats internally, though. I think I saw something like "converted to m4a"? For me it wouldn't be a problem if audapolis would handle FLAC the same way.

Hope my answers help. Thank you very much!

[pajowu]

For other formats, we currently try a lossless conversion to mp4, as this container formats works better. If this fails, we currently show a warning about degraded performance to the user and then try to use the original file format.

I think we could replace this fallback with the option to do a (slow and lossy) conversion to mp4.