ygi;649971 Wrote: > Someone gave me a flac that is played properly on its SB, the only thing > i had to do is to find the correct Player settings... > > Now I did my own conversion with spdifconvert.py and Flac.exe and it's > working > properly.. thank you for all your hints
I was about to reply to say: check your player settings. But I was beaten to it! These files don't carry audio data in the usual format understood by your computer or the SB. Normally the data inside the files can be turned into music, and the music's volume can be adjusted, and it can be cross-faded, all because the device knows how to work with audio. But these files are special: they carry specially-encoded AC3/DTS data that the SB is not expected to understand. The SB is being used only to transport the data from your computer to your receiver. To make this trick work, the special data has to hide inside audio data; the SB thinks it is audio and passes it on to your receiver. So we've got to be careful: it has to look like audio data so it will be passed through, but we don't want the SB to try to interpret it as audio data or we'll get noise. Hence: volume at 100%, digital output only, no replaygain on the files, no cross-fading, and it's recommended (as above) that you give them all a special genre to help avoid them coming up in random play on a player that can't handle them (which would sound very bad and could even damage speakers). > do you know why Flac 5.1 is not played in DTS but in 2 channels ? > Because Flac 5.1 can be played also on PC Are you talking about the files produced by spdifconvert? They're packaged to look like stereo audio data so the SB thinks it's a format it can understand, and pass it through to the receiver. (The receiver ignores the 2-channel flag and instead sees some magic numbers which tell it to decode as AC3 or DTS.) FLAC is able to carry 6 channels of data but we don't use that format, because it's too big and the receiver wouldn't understand it. -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89517 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
