I have no personal experience with their newer devices though. Since they were originally in the personal music/video player market they still view their Android tablets as primarily media consumers and try to throw the kitchen sink of codecs at them.

Oh and the main exception to the blanket statement of not having FLAC support is Archos. You could also try setting up your music with a DLNA server program such as PS3 Media Server (originally for PS3, now for most everything) and a DLNA browser app. If you go the transcoding route Subsonic is pretty popular. Most Android phones/tablets don't have native FLAC support built in but there's a few apps on the market that can read them. Has anybody run across a winner in this area? The various music streaming services all have clients but I've already got a local share to work with(it's in FLAC, so support for that is best but batch-encoding isn't out of the question). I've tried XBMC, and that might be OK when it matures but the Android platform port is currently pretty dreadful. Is there an Android media player that ties this together, making it reasonably easy and intuitive to browse/queue/just-shuffle?

I've already got the SMB share full of ripped CDs, and already have the stereo, and can get a Nexus 7 for the same or less as a dedicated piece of hardware(with a much inferior screen) like a squeezebox or one of the Sonos things. On this subject: any recommendations for a nice audio-oriented Android media player?

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