Re: Soundbridge 1000 is in the house!

Some receivers do that (even with the original DTS CDs).  When I play 
from the Roku to my Parasound AVC-2500 I get that.  I've not heard it 
playing to my Denon downstairs with the Airport Express.

Some decoders just take a little while to recognize that it is DTS when 
in Auto mode.  Something I always figured we had to live with, but if 
the Roku was smart enough to recognize it as DTS it might be able to 
prepend quite DTS frames or something to help out that kind of thing.  
But I think you would be catering to a rather esoteric crowd ;-)

On Aug 10, 2004, at 11:01 AM, Don Woodward wrote:

>> Not only the Airport Express works, but also the Roku HD1000!
>>  Anything that does not manipulate the bits but passes the raw AIFF 
>> data to the
>> digital output should work fine.  That implies that even at 100%
>
> Yes, in fact I've tested a snippet of Steve's file
> and have verified it works on the HD1000, but does
> not on the SoundBridge.  This is confusing because
> I do not perform any transformations on the data,
> on the SoundBridge either, but I will get to the
> bottom of it.
>
> I also noted that there is a slight audio blip at
> the beginning of the clip (when playing back from
> HD1000) which I think is rendered by my AV receiver
> as PCM audio before it figures out that it is DTS.
>
> Does your AV receiver do that too, Steve?
>
> -Don
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Steve Martin
>> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 7:49 PM
>> To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
>> Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] Soundbridge 1000 is in the house!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2004, at 9:17 PM, Mike Kobb wrote:
>>
>>> 4) DTS isn't a supported iTunes format, although it's
>> interesting to
>>> hear
>>> that it works for you with your AirPort Express.  It's
>> already filed
>>> as an
>>> enhancement request.
>>
>> Note that the source of these DTS files are DTS CD's.  DTS CD's are
>> when ripped to AIFF files and played back to a DTS decoder are
>> recognized and decoded.
>>
>> Not only the Airport Express works, but also the Roku HD1000!
>>  Anything
>> that does not manipulate the bits but passes the raw AIFF data to the
>> digital output should work fine.  That implies that even at 100%
>> volume, the Soundbridge is changing the bits.  It also implies that
>> AIFF data from normal AIFF files is not making it through
>> unaltered.  I
>> guess I could capture the output with a digital audio input card and
>> compare it to the original aiff to try to figure out what is changing
>> but you would probably be better equipt to analyze that.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 5) You mentioned that the first two times you tried to access a
>>> playlist, it
>>> failed.  Can you tell me a little more about your config?
>>> Wired/wireless,
>>> number of items in the playlist, iTunes version, etc.  Email me
>>> privately if
>>> you prefer.
>>
>> I had communication with Patrick over this but it was wired, 2000 in
>> the playlist, latest versions of iTunes/MacOS X (well latest as of 6
>> hours ago, 10.3.4).
>>
>>>
>>> 6) Play button to play the highlighted track.  Here's why
>> we didn't do
>>> this.
>>> Let's say you play some music and then go navigating around in the
>>> menus to
>>> add some songs to your playlist.  Your phone rings, so you
>> pause the
>>> music
>>> and answer.  You hang up and want to resume the music, so
>> you hit Play
>>> with
>>> a song selected in the UI.  What should happen?  In short,
>> using Play
>>> this
>>> way creates an ambiguity.  In evaluating other products, I
>> found this
>>> to be
>>> a frustrating behavior for that reason.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>>
>>>
>>> You will notice, though, that we put some effort into
>> organizing the
>>> menus.
>>> So, "Play songs starting with <>" is the first item in the menu you
>>> get when
>>> you press select with the highlight on a song.  Thus, you can
>>> "double-click"
>>> the song to start the list playing.
>>
>> Thinking the "double-click" metaphor helps, I'm sure I'll get used to
>> it.
>>
>>>
>>> 7) Play a list, shuffled.  How about a menu option for "play songs
>>> shuffled"
>>> that would just shuffle the song list, and start it with a
>> random song?
>>
>> That would be great.  I just don't like having to hear the same first
>> song every time or having to automatically press "next track" after
>> starting the list.
>>
>> Thanks for the great explanations and support.
>>
>>>
>> --
>> Steve Martin
>> [email protected]
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