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Just so you know, I have two Dolby Atmos downloads. . .

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Chris from Lafayette

In Reply to: RE: SACD and download posted by diw on July 07, 2024 at 05:55:33

. . . but I can't play either one (yet!). I can play Dolby Atmos using Dolby Atmos blu-rays in my blu-ray player and streaming via my Apple TV 4K device. But for Dolby Atmos downloads, there doesn't seem to be any straightforward, simple, cheap (!) way to play them right now. I have a big discussion going on right now on the Computer Style site, and I couldn't believe all the "gotchas" involved in playing back what I thought was a straightforward 24/48 album in Dolby Atmos I'd downloaded from the Audite site. For one thing, I would need to add an Nvidia Shield (a little hardware box, similar to the Apple TV 4K device) to my system (no problem - an extra $200). And for another thing, the format of the Atmos files downloaded from the Audite site is different from that of the Atmos files downloaded from the 2L or other sites.

And here's where things get even more complicated: the download from Audite unzipped to a bunch of WAV files (for the different tracks) - but it seems that they're special WAV files which won't play back like other WAV files (because they have all this Atmos meta information in them) and need to be passed through "Dolby Renderer" software ($300) and possibly another piece of software (? - I think it's software) from Dolby Labs, the Dolby Encoder ($400/year). And it seems that I don't want .wav files. I'm told what I REALLY need is .mkv files. I think the process will need to be WAY simplified if Dolby Atmos downloads are going to take off, even at a niche audiophile level.

Kal - if you're still on this thread, what do you think?

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I can play the Audite files. - Kal Rubinson 14:52:09 07/07/24 (3)
They are 13channel, 24/48 WAV files and Jriver plays them just fine.
- 13-channel? - Chris from Lafayette 00:45:37 07/08/24 (2)
  When I check the file info for each of the unzipped WAV files, the (Apple) system indicates 12 channels (which I assume is the equivalent of 7.1.4), and I'm wondering what the 13th channel would be used for?
  EDIT: BTW, I appreciate your info about being able to play Dolby Atmos downloads from the Audite site with Jriver. So no additional processing or conversion of the files was necessary - you just played the unzipped .wav files directly with Jriver? BTW, I checked the Jriver site a couple of hours ago, and there's a great discussion about Dolby Atmos there on one of the forums. Can you also play Auro 3D files (like those on the 2L site) directly in Jriver? TIA.
  
  Edits: 07/08/24
  - RE: 13-channel? - Kal Rubinson 05:50:01 07/08/24 (1)
    Well, the one I chanced to open was 13 but others were 12 channels. No idea why. (FWIW, I have a 40 channel one from SFSO
    
    Also, the files we are discussing are WAVs (zipped or not) and, though they may be derived from or the basis of Atmos or Auro3d, are not encoded and do not require anything special to play them. For real Auro3d, there is a VST plugin decoder that runs in Jriver.
    - Thanks, Kal! My immediate future is becoming clearer and clearer! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:17:10 07/08/24 (0)

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