BB as an audiophile playback device -broken

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I have a large collection of hires and DTS surround sound music on my NAS, but unfortunately Boxee Box is not able to play a large portion of it, or does not play it correctly. A lot of this functionality has been working solidly in XBMC for years, so it appears to have been removed from BB.

Here's a list of issues I've encountered so far:

• No .cue sheet support
• 44.1khz DTS audio does not route via HDMI passthrough, it's always converted by BB to PCM (although 48Khz DTS audio routes correctly via passthrough)
• Multi-channel .flac files do not output sound if 44.1Khz; 96Khz works, but is output as stereo
• DTS encoded audio in a .flac file container only outputs 'DTS static'
• The AUDIO_TS portion of a ripped DVD-Audio disk is not recognized - to be frank, I never expected BB to support this since XBMC doesn't either
• Menu navigation during VIDEO_TS playback of a ripped DVD appears to be broken - once an album is started there's no apparent way to skip to the next song or up to the main menu
• While navigating samba (over LAN) directories while a multi-channel song is playing, there is significant stutter each time a new directory is navigated
• No milkdrop visualizer
• BB is unable to identify and catalogue my music collection despite it being organized very clearly by "Artist/Album/Song.wav"

In terms of priority I'd rank the top 3 like this:

1. cue sheet support
2. 44.1Khz DTS pass-through
3. multi-channel .flac playback

If you're an audiophile please show your support here and vote on the Jira tasks linked above to let the developers know.

[Ozpeter]

The good news is that the Boxee Box supports Wavpack files although there seems to be no official claim for that. As that's the format I use in place of wave files, I'm happy.

Cue sheet support would be nice, true.

Menu navigation during VIDEO_TS playback of a ripped DVD appears to be broken - once an album is started there's no apparent way to skip to the next song or up to the main menu

Press the centre button, go to the extreme right where there's a menu icon. The other icons also allow skip forward and back between chapters.

[Ingraham]

I agree that support for dts .wav files should be there. This feature was available on the original XBMC.

I was using my PS3 to play these but had to turn off all the audio types so they would stream to my receiver.

I was hoping Boxee would be able to play these as it would allow me to use it exclusively for all my files.

Please look at this feature!

[jtn720]

oddly this works for me. Only the multichannel audio does not show up as dts 5.1 in the display of my reciever but as multichannel pcm.

[Rick58]

oddly this works for me. Only the multichannel audio does not show up as dts 5.1 in the display of my reciever but as multichannel pcm.

I think there was a bug report about this ...

I mainly want 24/96 stereo-only LPCM to pass unscathed ... so far, getting 16/96 (with only digital audio selected) or 16/48 (with 'all') selected.

My wireless router (Apple Airport Extreme) can pass this ...