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@seeteeyou But what does Google return to you when you make that search? At least one of the links I get is just for the release notes as a document. Not for the software. The OP may need a link to where they can find the software. @new_media Are you all set already? Or still need help?

@steveoat I use MP3Tag

@Lanceness Just regarding GPUs, as opportunities to borrow GPUs presented themselves, I tried the following so far this year with a 14700K: · 2070 (original card) · 4060 Ti · 4070 Ti · 4070 Ti Super (card now) The 4060 Ti did not accomplish much more than the 2070 for me. Though I downscale from DSD to PCM, which is more difficult than upscaling. The borrowed 4070 Ti was pretty capable though and so I waited for the price of a 4070 Ti Super to come down. For upscaling to DSD512, unless someone else says otherwise, do try with the 3060 and a new CPU first. If the 3060 does not cut it, probably the 4070 Super (so not Ti) would be a good choice. It is basically the 4070 Ti but at a better price. If it does not cut it, then you can return it and try a 4070 Ti Super, which is basically a 4080 but at a better price.

And how are you processing this one? Breaking the disc down into separate files first? Or keeping it simple and just ripping one MKV file with MakeMKV with all the record tracks as chapters in the one file, and just the TrueHD sound track? See Pink Floyd Animals image from my post above.

Bummer. Other than my marathon session last weekend to re-rip my older ATMOS music discs, I do not rip blu-rays much these days, just UHDs. I'd rather buy a download of ATMOS music and then archive the MKVs in offline backup. I have three backups of everything. So 120TB offline in two facilities for 40TB online. Maybe keeping more discs would be easier. But discs degrade over the decades. And I was asked by "house management" to reduce my physical "footprint" in the basement. If I remember right, my workarounds at this point would be: Go straight to the m2ts file on the blu-ray, or Create an ISO using DVDFab... if I remember right, this can be done as unprotected and with just the main title only, leaving blu-ray extras behind. Then run this reduced ISO through MakeMKV. I have no technical basis for these. They were learned by stubborn trial and error. My very last step would be to buy another disc from another country with different features. Maybe such a disc is authored separately / differently???

Hi, sorry, my humour might have been lost in translation as horror. Six letters, both begin in h and end in r. But different emotions. But seriously, although I am familiar with anti-virus false positives, if a link is not making it through my anti-virus, then I find it difficult to recommend the link to others to use.

If you create one MKV from the disc or from the image with only the video track and the TrueHD sound track in it... and with the separate album "tracks" just as chapters in the one file... are there still conversion failures when asking MMH to split the MKV into WAV chapter files?

@seeteeyou I was interested in trying DDG with DRP. But my anti-virus keeps complaining about a trojan called Gen:Heur.Mint.Zard trying to sneak through from the DDG link site. So I have kept to MMH+DRP so far.

@whoareyou Based on the discussion here, I have only been putting single, all-chapters MKV files, that only have the TrueHD soundtrack in them, through MMH+DRP and letting MMH do the splitting into separate WAV files. In MakeMKV the ripping looks like this: In MMH, I do not use a channel presentation count that is less than channel layout count. In my case, 16 for 9.1.6. With this, I have had no issue making MLPs, not even with files or tracks that otherwise fail in MMH when I only send an MKA chapter file through. Took an evening to figure this out by trial and error. But is working so far.

It fits! A foot is about the average of 20 and 40 cm!

That prompts me to post some updates. I finally got an hour without family or pets or washing machines making noise to do the Sonarworks SoundID 9.1.6 room calibration, which is quite well integrated with the Audient Oria interface. It shows lots of squiggly lines on charts. And when loaded in the Oria, the Oria shows that there are quite a few equalization adjustments employed. Result: It still sounds great! Frankly, just the Oria alone... before Sonarworks, but with a couple trim adjustments for speakers that are more efficient than others... sounded great. A note on the Sonarworks measurement process: When it is time to move the microphone around to different locations in the room, it is not very far to move. They show everything on a room-scale chart. But actually most of the measurement locations are only 20cm away from the listening point. The farthest were only 40cm away. At first, I kept getting error messages about “cannot locate the microphone”, when I had moved it half-way from the listening point to the speakers based on the graphic. That was way too far! And you can just hold the microphone in your hand where it needs to be. Back to the posts above from earlier today about Dolby... I am still dependent on the Dolby Reference Player (DRP), one way or another. If I play back from an MLP file... for which the DRP is not needed to make the file... I use the DRP for the playback. If I play back from a 9.1.6 WAV file... using HQPlayer to send to NAA on the Mac Mini and then on to the Audient Oria... then it “looks” like the DRP is not involved. But I noticed that the Music Media Helper (MMH) activated the DRP on my PC when I made the 9.1.6 files. So that still looks like a DRP dependency, best I can tell. A few other observations: · The Air 10000Hz Legend ATMOS BR has separate MKV tracks for each album track. This is great since one gets individual MLP files that play. More folks putting out ATMOS blurays should do the same. · Some of the albums that I bought from leading immersive sound sites... with separate MKV files in the download... had to be stitched back together into one MKV file with MKVToolNix, since only the very first track would play as an MLP. · I know Moritz B was not too keen to expend effort here two years ago: TrueHD Atmos in Dolby Reference Player Issue (#3309). Just still wondering if there is any way to append needed info to the beginnings of audio tracks two-plus. · Regarding copies of DRP on Russian and Chinese websites... service providers I know in an IT backoffice in Romania were keen to take these on to get copies of DRP from sites with names that translate as F U Dolby in English. Not sure I can recommend others to try these sites. · I did have a work reason to test the Dolby Media Encoder (DME), so I went a legitimate way to get my Dolby OK. They did not actually ask for my reason though. So, there is not much to lose to ask for access... using a company email...

Thanks. In my ignorance and liking of the sinc family for upscaling, I thought I’d use it downscaling too. I do rather like gauss-long anyway. Guess I will live happily with it. The 4070TiS is more GPU than I need now then. Could have stayed with the 2070. I assume the 4070TiS will come in handy by and by though. BTW, here are nvidia and htop screenshots with DSD256 to PCM24-96.

Hello, well I finally ponied up for a more powerful GPU... this time a 4070 Ti Super, which is really in the 4080 family. But I still cannot downscale DSD256 to 24-96, let alone 24-88, using the sinc-short, medium or long filters in the PCM settings. Gauss works fine, also to 24-96 with DSD256. And I can even do DSD512 to 24-88 with gauss now, though to 24-96 with the family change halts some. In the DSD sources section, I usually use sinc-M. But I also tried poly-gauss-long. Note: CPU is a 14700K. In hqplayerd.xml, settings are: cuda=1, multicores=1 and ecores=filter. Any recommendations for tweaking to see if I can get even sinc-short to work in PCM settings for DSD to 24-88? Here is a picture from the config page. Thanks!

LOL! Upscaling to DSD256 might be a way for me to justify an upgrade to a 4090 GPU. I was only thinking of getting a 4070 Ti Super. I have all the amps and speakers connected to the Audient Oria today. The SPL MC-16 has not yet arrived. So cannot switch simply yet between the Oria for music and the Arcam for films. Films can wait. Am running what might be called 9.4.6. See picture. Though all four open-baffle 15-inch subs are living off the one LFE signal. So is still "just" 9.1.6. Though the bass oompf is at least nicely balanced across the room. Electronica might not be everyone's cup of tea. But Booka Shade's 2006 Movements in 2022 ATMOS seems to make a lot of use of the top middles in .6 ATMOS. See second picture. Though I suppose in a .4 setup, the duty would be split front and rear and the sonic result would be the same. With the Oria, ATMOS music sounds much better than I even hoped. The Arcam just is not good enough for music. For films it is fine.

Oh, OK, I should have followed your instructions for making WAV ATMOS files here: Lossless TrueHD Atmos Just Got Much Easier. I had looked into the MMH manual instead and that lead me to try to engage the DME’s dee.exe. I now have some BIG 9.1.6 WAV files. Not sure what to do with them though! Simply playing full-album MLP files is working for me well enough for now.