How we gonna play our discs in the next future?!

[jimfisheye]

Perhaps an open source file format for up to 100 channels (for example) of PCM audio (96kHz 20 bits only) and a "VLC" type open source player & recorder.

The official wavpack format supports 256 channels. Not just 24 bit but 32 bit floating point if you choose. You could put 20 bit into it if you wished. All sample rates supported. This is the official wav lossless compression format. Flac just hit the streets sooner and ended up the consumer download and media player format. Wavpack takes over again over 8 channels.

If open source is a requirement maybe flac could be upgraded to 256 channels too? Wavpack is pretty friendly though. Supports all the channels of Atmos mixes losslessly and directly and plays them in a standard media player. (Either already decoded with a Dolby decoder or your own mix straight from the mixing board.)

 

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