Transcoding only multichannel dsf files

[Veganfloyd]

Thank you, Simon. Either way, I am chuffed about discovering the transcoding option and that it works at all. I have a related question, so I will follow-up here.

In my setup I have a universal disc player which correctly recognizes 4- and 5-channel files, both from discs and streaming over home network. My AVR correctly recognizes 5 channel files, but sees 4 channel ones as stereo. This is a common issue, so SACD manufacturers typically add silent channels to multichannel mixes to make the files 5.0 or 5.1. I have some 4.0 SACDs encoded as 5.0 with silent centre channel. I can play them just fine from disc, but when streaming dsf files ripped from them with transcoding to wav, I am getting stereo only. Could it be that transcoding drops silent channels on the fly? If so, is there any way to prevent this from happening.