SB3, LMS on RPI, rebuffering AAC radio

> - Am I right to assume that AAC is not supported natively on the SB3
> and thus has to be transcoded on the pi?

Yes.

> - Do any SB devices support native AAC stream?

Radio/Touch do.

> - If the pi is having to transcode, is there a way to improve the
> transcode performance (or am I simply asking it to do too much?)

Somebody mentioned http://allthingspi.webspace.virginmedia.com/lms.php
IIRC. They have an archive full of files, including a faad replacement.
This seems to be working much better than ours. You might want to give
it a try.

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Michael