Music Media Helper (Tools for Multichannel Audio & Music Videos)

[DistantEarth]

Plex will downmix any music to 2.0. Jellyfin will play m4a with ac3 or eac3 in 5.1 but not flac 5.1. I would like to stick with flac but it's not supported outside of stereo files. My server is offsite so over the internet needs to be supported. Kodi may do it but I have not had luck in the past with Plex Kodi Connect. It worked for a while...

 

[himey]

Plex will downmix any music to 2.0. Jellyfin will play m4a with ac3 or eac3 in 5.1 but not flac 5.1. I would like to stick with flac but it's not supported outside of stereo files. My server is offsite so over the internet needs to be supported. Kodi may do it but I have not had luck in the past with Plex Kodi Connect. It worked for a while...

PlexKodiConnect doesn't work very well for music. If you could get Kodi to connect to a shared folder? I just started using Emby for movies because I had an issue with Plex on my network and it is working great. I wonder if it does music? Plex4Kodi or the built-in Plex client on Kodi are a couple more options. Maybe connect a drive directly to the Shield for just 5.1 files and use Kodi. There has to be a better way than converting lossless to losy. That is a lot of work and lower quality like I mentioned before.