Hi, maybe this has already been discussed already.. I _did_ search the archives, found no solution...<br><br>I have a 4.1 channel track, I rip it to 5 separate mono wav files.<br><br>Is it possible to encode these independant files to one single multi-channel flac file with flac?<br>
<br>I heard a bit about ripping to wav, converting all mono tracks to flac separately (i had to use --channel-map=none to get this to work), then muxing the 4.1 channels into an ogg container, but didn't even manage to find info on how to do this.<br>
<br>Would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.<br><br><br>Errr, or then again, perhaps this is a totally irrelevant question for most people who do not have Uber receivers?<br><br>If I have a DVD-Audio disc with 4.1 channel MLP, and I want to store it in my digital music library, then I will either be playing back the multi-channel flac via the PC soundcard to a 4.1 speaker system (im not and wouldn't want to), or will play back using PC connected to an AV receiver, but this will _only_ work if the AV receiver supports FLAC natively, and those receivers are way above my price class. Even then you could maybe not do passthrough using TOSLink (bandwidth not enough) but would need at least HDMI to transfer the <a href="http://mult.ch">mult.ch</a>. flac? And then the question is if HDMI does passthrough?<br>
<br>In my situation, then, it's best just storing the DVD-A disc as an iso on the computer and rip to 24/96 stereo flac to store in digital mucic collection. Can then output using USB DAC (stereo) to AV receiver.<br>
<br>But assuming you had the gear... Is it posible to encode multi ch. flac?<br><br>--Andrew<br>