Thanks David and hello.
Unfortunately that is not the case. It will work with locally stored files where they are accessible for conversion to another format. However , as I have pointed out, this is of no use where the issue is arising during the play of internet streamed hi-res FLAC files. There is nothing that the listener can do in this respect. This is becoming an increasingly pertinent issue as many now use streaming for their primary listening and some have even gone so far as to abandon local file storage.
I find your points very interesting and probably have to agree that the solution suggested by you would: