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BadMax:
I have 2 DTS-CDs as FLAC in the library that work.

Now i ripped another DTS-CD to WAV and did split and convert it to FLAC with CUETools.
Then i did wonder i had only noise in JR.
After some time i did remember that the last time i was using foobar and it decodes the DTS and makes multichannel FLAC's

The thing is it would me nice to not to this and leave the DTS intact.
This way you have the choice to decode on the PC or let the AVR handle it.

Must be possible because foobar does recognize the FLAC is DTS and plays it fine.

BadMax:
Support?

ferday:
What are you trying to do?

There are no DTS FLAC files - there is multichannel FLAC

MC reads DTS and Multi-FLAC just fine.  You can rip straight to DTS files as well

blgentry:
ferday,

He's likely working from rips of DTS CDs.  These are a very strange format with unusual requirements in order to play them.  Decoding DTS to lossless is probably the best way, but a lot of guys that have rips of their DTS CDs keep them as the pure DTS stream stored in a WAV (or PCM) container.  Storing those streams in a FLAC container is even more confusing.  I know very little about them, other than it being unusual with unusual configurations required.

Brian.

BadMax:

--- Quote from: ferday on July 27, 2017, 06:31:37 pm ---There are no DTS FLAC files
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So how is it possible i have them?
It's what you get if you split a big DTS wav or ape with CUETools to FLAC.
You only get multichannel FLAC if you use a converter with a DTS decoder.
Just plain FLAC (command-line) does not produce multichannel files.

Did you read that foobar plays them fine and that i don't want to convert them to multichannel FLAC?

wav DTS files do also not work right in JR. The codec column shows DTS but the channel column shows just 2.

FLAC is the only thing i rip to because it has the best tagging system (Vorbis comments).


--- Quote from: blgentry on July 27, 2017, 06:46:55 pm ---I know very little about them, other than it being unusual with unusual configurations required.
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No unusual configurations required.
foobar does it fine.
FLAC is just like a zip file. The pcm is not altered and everything is preserved.
I also have Dolby Surround CDs and there is no Dolby Surround software decoder.
So you need to let the AVR handle the decoding. The surround matrix is preserved in the stereo signal with FLAC.

It also can happen that FLAC messes up the channel mapping if you convert to multichannel.
Had this just yesterday with pcm from a High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray.
dBpoweramp does this. Surround and back surround speakers are switched.

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