I've not noticed this problem myself, but I may not have encountered the
situation in the first place.  The auto-detect mode of a receiver will
work by looking for magic numbers in the data stream which tell it what
sort of data is being sent.  If those magic numbers disappear, the
receiver has to decide what to do -- in your case, I guess it thinks
it's having difficulty re-syncing with a DTS stream and elects not to
just push that digital data out to the speakers (where it would sound
awful).

I presume that the SB3 could interrupt its output stream to force the
receiver to reconsider what it was receiving, but I suppose that could
ruin gapless playback between ordinary PCM tracks.

I've proposed in 'Bug 3047'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3047) that it would be
useful if the SB2/3 could provide certain special behaviour if it knows
it's handling a non-PCM digital stream (such as disabling analogue
outputs). It seems to me that another useful effect might be to force a
stream interruption of some sort if a DTS track is followed by a PCM
track.  I've added that idea to the bug.

(Identification of such tracks in the above scenario is another matter,
but might be through a custom tag or the presence of certain values
(DTS, Dolby Digital, etc) in a genre list.)


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