Phil, Seems like we are on similar paths....
Here is what I understand about DTS-CDs, they "look" like a regular CD with a DTS bitstream within the PCM format. You should be able to rip using EAC, or dbPoweramp, as a .wav file and subsequently encode it with FLAC to get tags. The resulting file has the same audio characteristics as a regular CD track (1,411 Kbps/16 bits/44.1 KHz) but you can play it through a SB the same way as a DTS track ripped using DVD Audio Extractor. I don't know if the DTS-CD files are lower resolution than DTS tracks from a DVD. I do know that the DVD originated DTS tracks generally show as 48KHz/16 bit whereas the DTS-CDs show as 44.1KHz/16 bit. I could probaly learn for sure by examining the different tracks under winamp or foobar2000. My ears tell me that there isn't a great difference between a DVD sourced DTS track and a DTS-CD sourced track. Here is the DTS-CD extract from wikipedia "The DTS-CD, DTS Audio CD or 5.1 Music Disc (official name) is an audio Compact Disc that contains music in surround sound format. Physically, it conforms to the Red Book standard, except for the way the music is encoded on the CD. Where regular CDs store the music as linear PCM, the DTS-CD stores music using the DTS format, with the same fixed bitrate as 16-bit linear PCM, namely 1,411,200 bit/s or roughly 1,378 Kib/s. As opposed to other surround formats, such as Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio, which require a specialized player, a DTS-CD is compatible with most standard CD players with a digital (S/PDIF) output. CD (and DVD) players recognize the disk as a standard audio CD. The only requirement is a receiver that can decode DTS audio." -- Kiwi SB3 Classic, SB Controller, SB Receiver, 3 x SB Boom, ? (waiting on announcement) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kiwi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66193 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
