One of the issues I have is when playing back media through my TV/Receiver. It does not support compressed sound - it’s optical, which is uncompressed audio only. That means every movie or TV show that is TrueHD will not playback and transcoding is too cpu intensive/not necessary because a proper a…

Device settings for supported/primary audio

FordGuy61 April 7, 2025, 1:12am 2

See this feature request. It discusses setting default audio formats on a per-client basis. It may cover the situation you describe.

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