how to play DTS audio downloaded from the net Options

[faddat]

I'm trying to play (perfectly legal, community-distributed 5.1) audio I downloaded from the 'net. I am having success with some of it, and some of it doesn't work properly. In general, vlc plays about 50% of the 10 albums or so I have downloaded. The ones it doesn't play are in a format of

*.cue
*.wav

I've tried mounting the thing and playing it with POWER DVD and VLC. No Luck. I know it's a good download and there are multiple albums doing this.

I am thinking that I am doing something wrong here. Does anyone have any advice? Can anyone point me to a place where this sort of thing is routinely discussed? I am interested in finding lots of community-distributed surround (the actual 96khz thing doesn't matter that much to me-- I am interested in 5.1!) An example of what I'm looking for would be "a project called red" by stabilizer in 5.1 . That would just be awesome to me!

Is there a format that looks to be king of 5.1 distribution online? The current methods don't seem to be too effective.

I know there's a lot to this post... replies to any questions are greatly appreciated. Lastly, I'm mostly interested in 5.1-- can anyone point me to a forum for 5.1 stuff only? I want good music to feed my good speakers !

Thanks

[faddat]

This seems really weird to me, but it turns out that all I had to do was rename the .wav's to .dts and they played in foobar (with the dts plugin) and VLC. I tried that as a last-ditch effort. I'm amazed!

[j7n]

Formats intended for efficient usage on a personal computer and straight burning to disc differ.

CUE + fake (compressed) WAV is good for burning. So is any representation of Video DVD, for example.

On a computer you better strip the WAV overhead and listen to the DTS. I would also cut it in tracks, especially if the album is not gapless, but that involves using a hex editor and is optional. I have used this wav2dts converter:

http://j7n.sytes.net/temp/DTS-2-WAV-2-DTS.rar

For playback in DirectShow you can use DTSAC3Source + AC3Filter. Another splitter promised to take fake WAV as input but I did not have success with that. Install DirectShow decoders by unpacking them to a suitable folder and running RegSvr32.exe <full_path_with_filename>.

There is also an AC3filter for Winamp.

Here's a DTS decoder for Foobar 0.8. You can use cue files in Foobar. (I don't use Foobar 0.9 due to the whole incompatibility thing with W98 and W2k)

I did not see your second post before writing this information and uploading referenced files.