Previously, there was no special code to convert stereo to
multi-channel. The generic solution for this was to convert to mono,
and then copy the result to all channels. That's a pretty bad
solution, but at least something which always renders audio. MPD does
something, instead of failing.
Now that MPD has proper support for multi-channel (by defining the
channel order), we can do better than that. It is a (somewhat) common
case to play back stereo music on a DAC which can only do
multi-channel. The best approach here is to copy the stereo channels
to front-left and front-right, and apply the "silence" pattern to all
other channels.
A daemon for playing music of various formats. Music is played through the
server's audio device. The daemon stores info about all available music,
and this info can be easily searched and retrieved. Player control, info
retrieval, and playlist management can all be managed remotely.
For basic installation information see the INSTALL file.
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