on 2005-11-13 16:50 Philip Meyer said the following:
I have some DTS flac files. I can stream these via my SB2 to a
surround sound amp, and it sounds superb.
...
I appreciate that it might not be possible to downmix
multi-channel data to stereo, but is it possible to simply turn off
the other outputs when a multi-channel source is playing?
I've been thinking about similar things recently (I have DTS/AC3 files
ripped from DVD; are yours from DVD or from a DTS CD?) and there was
some discussion about the SB2 firmware disabling analog outputs when
they weren't appropriate:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=58089
I don't know what the best way to tag the FLAC files is, however. My
feeling is that overriding GENRE is not the most elegant solution -- but
it might turn out to work for many applications.
Perhaps a new tag would be in order. I've currently set a new tag
called SPDIF_ONLY in parts of my collection, with values like "Dolby
Digital" and "DTS"; I don't think that's particularly obvious either.
Maybe better would be something which explicitly forbade analogue
outputs (NO_ANALOGUE?). It might be worth opening a discussion in the
ripping/tagging forum, come to think of it.
A complementary solution might involve the filename: if files were named
whatever.dts.spdif-flac, say, then they wouldn't be obviously FLAC files
(no Windows file association by default) and you'd also get around the
potential problem of dealing with your software player. But maybe
software players will ignore extension in favour of magic numbers; I
don't know.
I'm very interested in suggestions. My own setup uses the digital
output exclusively at the moment, but I'd like to see this issue
addressed so that it's easier for everyone. (I guess I might get a
second box with analogue outputs in future also.)
Cheers,
Steve
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Steve Tregidgo
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