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Originally Posted by neilwilkes  I would certainly not use AC3.
It sounds terrible for music mixes, smearing the hell out of all the transients & generally sounding as if someone put a sack over the speakers.
Yuk.
If your band is surround savvy, they will doubtless be able to play DTS-CD, and you can buy (sorry, but encoders cost money) the SurCode DTS-CD encoder for $99.
Downside is you will need to resample to 24-44.1, but that is all & you will be able to write the output to a straight CD-R and get discrete surround in a better quality by quite a long way compared to AC3.
VLC Media Player will play this.
Most DVD players will output either the decoded 6 channels or else a bitstream to a decoder in an amplifier.
You can use FLAC of course, but that will be limited to computer playback on a player with FLAC support - again, VLC will do this |
You can also get Diskwelder bronze and make a dvd-a for that money (though I believe there are also free tools that do the same. There is a dvd-a project on sourceforge and I believe that Foobar and WinDVD support playback of dvd-a on windows. VLC has some experimental playback support too in some of their nightlies).