Yeah. I hear you. It was a bit of a pain to get it working, but now I just have the firmware for my Sony player on a flash drive and a hard drive attached. When I buy an SACD (usually classical music from a European/UK label), I pop it in the player and the ISO is generated on the hard drive...
Well, it isn't necessarily that complicated, but it can be. Blu-Ray audio is the easiest as you can use MakeMKV to rip the discs, just like one does for Blu-Ray movies. If you want to split the albums out into track files, you can use MKVToolNix. (Honestly it has been nearly a decade since I...
Thanks! I've downloaded Emby and set up a test server on my JRiver server box. It is pulling in my library now and I'll report back after it completes and I can run some tests.
Edit: It works! Both MKV True HD Atmos and M4V eAC-3 JOC Atmos bitstreams are correctly passed to my processor and...
I say "streaming" as it is streaming locally off a NAS rather than off of local storage.
I've looked at the Ziddo before and they cannot pass TrueHD Atmos via HDMI to a downstream receiver. They can do so for video files, but not Audio. (Android limitation?)
A little background. I've been collecting multichannel music for about fifteen years now. First on SACD and DVD-Audio and then on Blu-Ray. Over the years I've amassed a pretty huge collection and all titles are ripped, as individual tracks, to my home server (just like my film library is). The...