6 channel (5.1 surround) flac file

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Out of curiosity, it ought to be possible to convert 5.1 to stereo on the fly via ffmpeg? I have a few 5/7.1 rips for which I have created stereo versions via dbpoweramp, as my Linn streamers will not play multi-channel FLAC.

I just tried setting convOut=-ac 2 for stream.options and enabling transcoding as flac:wav;, and the syntax was approved by Minimwatch, but my Linn streamer is not playing any multi-channel files.

It may be that even if this works, the end result may not be ideal, but as a technical exercise, I thought it might be possible to get this to work?