Does anyone know how to play surround sound music files from SD card, USB or a burned DVD/CD?.

I've burned some dts tracks ripped fom a DVD to a DVD+RW, but will not read through any format in the car (Mk3 with Canton & Columbus :-)). The files work on the home surround sound and PC set up...

Putting a normal DVD in works OK, just wanted the convenience of not having the DVDs in the car..

Edited 11 November, 201411 yr by robs12

I am not sure the columbus will play surround audio from any source other than DVD Video discs.

It will likely depend on the format you have converted the file into. Specifically the audio compression (usually it increases the lossyness) method used and level of that compression. Some free ripping tools only convert audio as basic stereo or even mono mp3 format by default, then embed that into the video file (mp4, avi, mkv etc.)

I suggest googling for info about the audio conversion options for the tool you are using to rip your dvd's.

Hope this is helpful to you mate.

Edited 11 November, 201411 yr by Black0ut

Here is an e-how guide that explains it more clearly

http://www.ehow.com/how_6831130_preserve-surround-sound-ripping-dvds.html

Thanks Blackout, files are wav and flac. I'm no fan of compression..!

Both file types play fine for normal music files on SD & USB, but the surround doesn't seem to work. Maybe it doesn't like DVD+RW..

If I were you I'd give avi a try on a compression setting that's not too heavy.

I tool I've used alot in the past is autoGK http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AutoGK

It's very customisable and you can preserve full hd and 6ch surround sound with this tool.

Edited 11 November, 201411 yr by Black0ut

Man...

I just realised I miss read you initial post as 'video' files!

In that case...

I still think your problem is an conversion encoding one

Try audacity and check out the wiki http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/

Don't know if it's of any use:

 

I used to have an Octavia III with Columbus and found that it couldn't play play FLAC files from an SD card that was formatted ExFAT, I could copy the files from the card on to the built in hard drive and they would play fine, I solved the problem by reformatting the SD card to NTFS -strange but true.

Maybe the same is true for Amundsen? I know people say that Amundsen can't play FLAC, but the manual states that it does.

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OK, to answer my own question, and after much playing about, I don't think it's possible from USB, SD, Aux, Bluetooth, nor Audio CD. But you can burn just the ripped audio files to a DVD and get 5.1 surround out...

 

In case anyone is interested, and FWIW, I used Audiomuxer and Imgburn (freeware).

The 5.1 files need to be converted to AC3 - 448kbps & muxed to DVD (rather than mkv) in Audiomuxer, then the resulting VIDEO_TS folder burned to DVD in Imgburn (which needs to be in Build mode).

The DVD then plays just the audio - sound settings need to have Canton surround sound set to max.