I've never really understood why multi-channel ripped audio can't be ripped and
played directly through Squeezeboxes.
More and more products are being released in DTS/DD5.1/DVD-A formats. Why
can't the audio be ripped to an ac3 file, and played through a squeezebox
player without first wrapping the audio in a container file format?
I have been using a utilitity that someone posted many years ago now called
"spdifconvert.py" to do this. Is this a standard process that other audio
players use? Are there any other tools to do this audio conversion?
I recently got a 4-channel 96/24 LPCM DVD-A album. I can open this in Foobar
and other desktop applications, and it plays back fine. I've ripped the music
from Foobar to flac, and the flac files report the correct properties:
Sample Rate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 4
Bits Per Sample: 24
Bitrate 9216 kbps
Codec: PCM
I can play this back through PC, and it downmixes to 2 channels and sounds
great.
I don't think that spdifconvert.py can process this audio content, so I can't
stream the album from SBS to my surround sound amp.
(I should point out that 9Mbps would be too much for my Wifi network to stream
anyway, but potentially I could stream from a Touch using TinySC to stream the
audio from a USB stick?)
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