Ripping in surround for Apple TV

[Cheezmo]

So, I'm not holding my breath but does this open the possibility to someone figuring out how to rip Dolby Atmos from a Blu-ray, encode the base 5.1/7.1 in to lossy and then mix the Atmos data in to a .m4a file that Apple Music would upload?

Crazy? Or possible.

 

[Cheezmo]

It appears there is a size limit so if you have a long track that continues to indicate it is "ineligible", try lowering the bitrate. Not sure what the size limit is but I first encountered it on a 20 minute track that was over 200Mb.

 

[gingerbeardman]

does this open the possibility to someone figuring out how to rip Dolby Atmos

It's my understanding that Dolby Atmos tracks are served as multiple files packaged together. So a different approach will be required.

 

[HomerJAU]

Crazy? Or possible.

What’s crazy is remixing everything to a lossy format. There are plenty of other cheap media players that that can play lossless TrueHD, DTS-HDMA and FLAC.

 

[Cheezmo]

What’s crazy is remixing everything to a lossy format. There are plenty of other cheap media players that that can play lossless TrueHD, DTS-HDMA and FLAC.

But they don't track last played date, ratings, all the cool things you can do with Apple's Smart Playlists. I have play counts and history going back to 2002. And, my 61 year old ears are way past being able to tell the difference between high bitrate lossy and lossless. I just isn't there so I can't care.

 

[HomerJAU]

But they don't track last played date, ratings, all the cool things you can do with Apple's Smart Playlists. I have play counts and history going back to 2002. And, my 61 year old ears are way past being able to tell the difference between high bitrate lossy and lossless. I just isn't there so I can't care.

Yea. Each to his/her own. Other media players can do what you mention (with your own media). That's not unique to Apple.

In my case I don't care to know when I last played something nor do I give it a rating. I guess when I can't remember what I like I won't know how to play music anyway (like my dad at 80 when he couldn't remember how to to switch his AVR inputs between his BD player, DVD player, turntable and TV)

 

[relaxing]

The older I get there’s too much stuff to like to remember it all!

 

[bieniu]

Hi everyone - so I've just bought a new Apple TV 4K which of course opens up the world of Dolby Atmos on Apple Music (albeit that I am downscaling that to 5.1!!!)

What I don't really understand is how to rip and then play back some of my existing surround physical discs and play back via my Apple TV. I use Apple Music/ iTunes for my digital audio but also use Plex.

I am a Mac user - is there a tutorial of some sort which could explain (1) what format do I need to rip to to play back via Apple TV; (2) where do I play those back from ???

Thanks and apologies if this is covered elsewhere.

Having 5.1 FLAC files, I just used Media Human Audio converter. I selected output type AAC(M4A) and in settings original number of channels, bit rate 256, and selected Add files to Itunes ( on Windows) - after converting to lossy format they appear in Itunes and then I can play them in Apple TV. My Denon X3700 view them as PCM Multin In so 5.1.