Re: [slim] DTS Playback

2005-11-15 Thread Philip Meyer
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. I don't like it, but I thought it was the only way to prevent them from being selected for a random

Re: [slim] DTS Playback

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Tregidgo
on 2005-11-15 09:24 Philip Meyer said the following: I thought it might be possible to detect based on the encoding, rather than add a new tag. Eg. can anything be determined by looking at the bit rate? Otherwise adding a new tag would seem the logical thing to do. The decoded WAV file would

Re: [slim] DTS Playback

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Tregidgo
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

[slim] DTS Playback

2005-11-13 Thread Philip Meyer
I have some DTS flac files. I can stream these via my SB2 to a surround sound amp, and it sounds superb. However, two things I'm not particularly keen about are: 1) I only hear white noise through the analog outputs. 2) I have the Small VU displayed on the Now Playing screen - this doesn't