# Surround Sound Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** server-mac\ **Created:** [December 27, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806 "2019-12-27T21:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boxsterfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@Boxsterfeet](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Boxsterfeet)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/1 "2019-12-27T21:42:02Z")
Server Version#: Version 1.18.3.2156 I have a number of ‘Super Deluxe’ albums that include 5.1 album tracks and in one case 7.1 album tracks. I’ve ripped the blu ray to MKV files, but I’m struggling to know how to save the files down. For 5.1 I’ve saved as ac3 files. As my Plex won’t scan MKV files as music, how do I save down 7.1 audio tracks? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/2 "2019-12-27T21:49:21Z")
well, you can either leave them in mkv and store them in a ‘misc videos’ library or convert the audio to multi channel flac files. another option might be multi channel alac, but I never used that myself. ---
**Author:** ![Boxsterfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@Boxsterfeet](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Boxsterfeet)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/3 "2019-12-27T21:50:49Z")
Multi-channel FLAC sounds an option. I’ll try. thanks ---
**Author:** ![SE56](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/se56/32/222425_2.png) [@SE56](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SE56)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/4 "2019-12-27T21:52:21Z")
Handbrake will mix down your audio in a mkv container and use a video Library [https://handbrake.fr/](https://handbrake.fr/) Also this support article may assist > **[Audio Configuration Guide - Plex Media Player | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/212072167-audio-configuration-guide-plex-media-player/)** > > Tip!: We do not recommend enabling passthrough as the first thing you do. Only do that if you are very... ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/5 "2019-12-27T21:54:37Z")
I don’t think he doesn’t want to downmix, he wants to keep multi channel, but plex does not recognize mkv as an audio/music file, so he needs to extract/convert the mkv multi channel audio to a file type plex will accept as music (no video). ---
**Author:** ![Explorer\_200](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/explorer_200/32/295935_2.png) [@Explorer\_200](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Explorer_200)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/6 "2020-01-13T21:49:52Z")
I have a Shield TV Pro and a vsx933 reciever. I can’t for the life of me get Plex to play any 5.1 FLAC files ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/surround-sound-music/515806/7 "2020-04-12T21:49:55Z")
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