andyg;534434 Wrote: > I was thinking the other day that it would be fairly easy to support raw > passthrough of AC3 and DTS files in their native format without any sort > of FLAC wrapper. This would also make it easier to do things such as > auto-disabling of the analog outputs, forcing of 100% digital volume, > disabling of VU meters, and so on. > > However there is one big problem that would probably be a show-stopper > to most people - there is no easy way that I can find to tag a raw > AC3/DTS file. It would actually be fine to stick an ID3 tag on the > front of one, but I'm not sure any tagging tools recognize these files > nor would they let you write an ID3 tag to it. > > Another option would be to still use FLAC but if you had a special tag > in there such as AC3=1 or DTS=1 it could change the behavior of the > player. > > What do you guys think? I would like to remove the need for using FLAC > because that's a rather painful process currently, but it would require > some app to be able to support tagging these file types before anyone > would want to use it.
Hi. First post here for me and I was going to start a new thread until I saw this one and figured that my thoughts tied in with the subject quite nicely. Background - I own 2 SB3s which are both connected via SPDIF. One to an AV processor and the other to a stereo pre-amp with built-in DAC. I always rip my multi-channel albums twice, once to stereo and once to multi-ch, so that I can choose which I play depending on which system I am using. This results in a duplication of the album in SBS and false count of the number of albums I own. Idea - Add a setting to the Player tab that allows you tell SBS how the SB is connected to the amp. There would be 3 options, 1. analogue, 2. digital - stereo DAC and 3. digital - multic-ch DAC. SBS would then need to recognise a custom tag called, say "MultiCh" with a value of "1" to differentiate the multi-channel version from the stereo version. So long as all other tags are identical then SBS need only display the album once when using the web interface and the overall album count would not be affected and the scan would recognise the duplication and understand the reason why there is duplication through the "MultiCh" tag. The files could be named differently in the same folder or be in different folders, it shouldn't matter. In action - when I am browsing music on the SB3 connected to the stereo DAC, I only see the stereo version of the album and vice-versa. I think this would be a particular advantage when using synchronisation and would prevent white noise being squirted out of ones speakers accidentally. I would love to go off and write a plug-in to implement this, but I'm afraid I don't know my a**e from my elbow when it comes to programming. Does the above make sense and does it sound possible? What do others think, would it a be a useful plug-in or addition to SBS? TIA -- Mr_Orange ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mr_Orange's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37785 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77296 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
