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 
represent the surround sound being played; I guess it represents the white 
noise that I'm hearing through the analog outputs.

If I am playing random music through my HiFi, and SlimServer choses a surround 
sound file, it really doesn't sound good (could this damage speakers?).  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 outputs when a 
multi-channel source is playing?

At the moment, I am hoping to avoid the Random Mix problem by tagging all of my 
DTS surround sound files with an additional GENRE="DTS" tag, and then ensuring 
this is not ticked in the "genres to include in your mix".  I'm not sure though 
whether this will work though - if I have a track with Rock and DTS genres, and 
Rock is included but DTS is not included, could the track be selected in a 
random mix?

Phil
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