I'm not sure if this is in the right place and I cannot find anything in the search about it.
I have a bunch of DVD Audio multichannel music discs that I have ripped using DVD Audio Extractor. They were ripped into 5.1 ALAC files with a .m4v extension so they could be played through iTunes. This works and when my HTPC is connected to my HT system via HDMI, I get beautiful 5.1 channel music.
The files are in my normal iTunes music folder structure.
I want to add these files to Plex. Using a Music library and scanner, they are ignored. If I create a separate Personal Video library and scan, they are found, but they don't get correctly sorted into albums, etc. and the album art is sketchy at best.
I was able to rename all the file *.mp3 and the scanner found them and added them, what appears to be correctly. Here is a media info xml for one of the files::
<TrackratingKey="6726"key="/library/metadata/6726"parentRatingKey="6724"grandparentRatingKey="6723"guid="com.plexapp.agents.lastfm://Blue%20Man%20Group/Audio/2?lang=en"type="track"title="PVC IV"grandparentKey="/library/metadata/6723"parentKey="/library/metadata/6724"grandparentTitle="Blue Man Group"parentTitle="Audio"summary=""index="2"parentIndex="1"thumb="/library/metadata/6724/thumb/1423107613"art="/library/metadata/6723/art/1423107602"parentThumb="/library/metadata/6724/thumb/1423107613"grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/6723/thumb/1423107602"grandparentArt="/library/metadata/6723/art/1423107602"duration="259123"addedAt="1423107578"updatedAt="1423107611"chapterSource="">
The only thing now is that if I play the music on a two channel device, I only hear those two channels, it isn't being mixed down into 2 channels. Do I need to use an audio transcoder to create a two channel track to go with it? It doesn't matter that much since I would normally only play this music on a 5.1 capable device.
