I've been converting all my surround music on SACD, blu-ray and DVD-A to multichannel flac on my PC which serves as my Plex server and has worked flawlessly thus far. All those sources converted to flac will be detected when I click "scan library files" almost instantly. The only problem so far has been with DTS CDs, which I understand are quite unique and a bit of an oddball format. Audio CDs with 16/44.1 DTS audio track that needs to be played on a device that can decode DTS otherwise you only hear hiss/static.
I first encountered this issue when I tried to use DVDAE to rip Sting's Nothing Like The Sun DTS CD and found that it was not a DVD (I didn't really know what it was until then) but an audio CD. I then used Foobar2000 with DTS decoder plugin (and using the "decode DTS" option) to rip the CD to flac, which yielded 5.1 16/44.1 flac files which I put it in my Plex library folder but for the first time it wasn't detected. Doing some research I could only conclude/guess/hope that it was because Plex does not decode DTS and the file was presumably a DTS track in a flac container (not sure about this though since I had used the "decode DTS" option when ripping the disc using foobar, so maybe it was converted to PCM when ripped and converted to flac by foobar?). I read that you can convert the DTS file to PCM (in a flac or wav container) which I hoped would solve the problem.
So with the (presumably) DTS flac files from the original foobar rip (5.1 channel, 16/44.1) I tried to use MMH to "convert DTS flac to PCM flac" but it wouldn't accept the flac files. It seems it was because the original foobar rip used "decode DTS" option and so I ripped the DTS CD again unselecting the "decode DTS" option and I got 2 channel, 16/44.1 files (presumably DTS files since they were 2 channel) that I could use MMH on for the "convert DTS flac to PCM flac, which yielded 5.1, 16/44.1 tracks which were about 3x the size as the original 5.1 flacs (about 150MB vs 50MG per track). Anyway, those files weren't detected either and so now I have no idea what the issue is and I am at a complete loss.
Sorry for the confusing post but hopefully someone can help me figure this out as I'm sure I'm not the only one to try ripping DTS CD multichannel audio to play/stream through Plex! I should also add that the issue is that the files are not detected by Plex, but I can play them fine using VLC or foobar players, but only want to stream them using Plex.
I first encountered this issue when I tried to use DVDAE to rip Sting's Nothing Like The Sun DTS CD and found that it was not a DVD (I didn't really know what it was until then) but an audio CD. I then used Foobar2000 with DTS decoder plugin (and using the "decode DTS" option) to rip the CD to flac, which yielded 5.1 16/44.1 flac files which I put it in my Plex library folder but for the first time it wasn't detected. Doing some research I could only conclude/guess/hope that it was because Plex does not decode DTS and the file was presumably a DTS track in a flac container (not sure about this though since I had used the "decode DTS" option when ripping the disc using foobar, so maybe it was converted to PCM when ripped and converted to flac by foobar?). I read that you can convert the DTS file to PCM (in a flac or wav container) which I hoped would solve the problem.
So with the (presumably) DTS flac files from the original foobar rip (5.1 channel, 16/44.1) I tried to use MMH to "convert DTS flac to PCM flac" but it wouldn't accept the flac files. It seems it was because the original foobar rip used "decode DTS" option and so I ripped the DTS CD again unselecting the "decode DTS" option and I got 2 channel, 16/44.1 files (presumably DTS files since they were 2 channel) that I could use MMH on for the "convert DTS flac to PCM flac, which yielded 5.1, 16/44.1 tracks which were about 3x the size as the original 5.1 flacs (about 150MB vs 50MG per track). Anyway, those files weren't detected either and so now I have no idea what the issue is and I am at a complete loss.
Sorry for the confusing post but hopefully someone can help me figure this out as I'm sure I'm not the only one to try ripping DTS CD multichannel audio to play/stream through Plex! I should also add that the issue is that the files are not detected by Plex, but I can play them fine using VLC or foobar players, but only want to stream them using Plex.
Last edited: