bpa wrote: 
> I worry about the sync with file types - I think LMS will check
> capabilities of all players - So I'm think you could use bitrate value
> of ac3 flac file as a way to signal when to do 5.1 to 2 channel
> conversion. 
> In addition to defining a new file type - can you make the bitrate of
> your Ac3/DTS flac file have a high bitrate number e.g. 384k.  If you
> then set up squeezelite player that has your AV receiver as a player
> then acan play 384k and none of your other players can play 384k - LMS
> will automatically pick the flac to flac trasncode rule - which you can
> set up your 5.1-2 chan conversion.
I'm tinkering with this... I'll report back and I'd be... well, I'm
embarassed to say that I might be so bold as to ask for your help in
understanding all this custom.conf intricacies. I fear that there's an
amount of hardcoded stuff that it will be tough to overcome.

Unfortunately bitrate is not an option, as I have 24/96 stereo files
(they get downsampled to 24/48 for Squeezebox 2 and Boom(s).

What I can promise is that I'll post a detailed report for everybody to
have a look at, for future use. As soon as I have a fully functional
setup.

I currently have:

2 Squeezebox Boom connected through WiFi - these need bitrate limiting
working
1 Squeezebox Classic connected through Wifi - this needs bitrate
limiting working
1 Squeezebox Boom connected through Ethernet - this can play with no
problem all bitrates
1 Squeezebox 2 connected through Ethernet and hooked up to the AV
Receiver - this is the only one capable of playing back correctly the
untouched DTS/AC3 files in FLAC container
1 Squeezelite on local machine, the server basically. This obviously
doesn't have bitrates problems but it can't playback DTS/AC3 too.

The multichannel files are in FLAC containers. So files currently with a
.flac extension. The first thing I thought was renaming them all to a
.fla extension. But .fla is included in the standard types.conf file. I
tried removing it and adding it in custom-types.conf, with a mch
(multichannel) definition for the rules in custom-convert.conf. The only
thing I got out of this was that the one album I tested this on was not
getting scanned by LMS. Maybe I did this the wrong way, I don't know.

I'm generally finding hard to create rules in custom-convert.conf that
actually override the ones in convert.conf. As I said, I'll report back.


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