I have an increasing number of Dolby 5.1 Music Files in my library on the NAS, most have AC3 and some have FLAC format. It would be great if I could listen to this music, exactly as easily as to my stereo music using Squeezebox and iPeng.
Unfortunately, I do not see anywhere that the SlimServer scans the music library for AC3 files. It should just need to be displayed side-by-side in the list with MP3 or AAC. There are even no tags to scan, just the files to be listed. On the Squeezebox itself, we would need just Passthrough to the SPDIF interface and no decoding. It is even more surprising to see that the Sqeezeboxes don't support it, considering that most hardware media players scan for AC3 music files and implement the Passthrough. The Twonky Media server does it etc. So I do not understand why this was ignored by the Squeezebox developpers and community. If somebody is interested in Dolby 5.1 music in the different formats, there are fantastic examples to download from here : http://www.diatonis.com/surround_sound_music.html It would be so easy to implement. Was this ever discussed, and are there any chances to get it ? Best Regards, Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bernaci's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14958 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96851 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
