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Contributor I
June 2, 2019
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Does the Beam play AAC 5.1?

I have a playbar 5.1 setup and recently tried to play a movie that was encoded with AAC 5.1 audio. When that didn't work, I found a thread that said that the playbar only will support AC3. My question is: can the Beam play AAC 5.1 or would it be better to re-encode the file to AC3.

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    controlav
    controlavAnswer
    Lead Maestro
    June 3, 2019
    No, AAC 5.1 is not supported, use AC3 (aka DD 5.1) instead.
    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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    controlav
    controlavAnswer
    Lead Maestro
    June 3, 2019
    No, AAC 5.1 is not supported, use AC3 (aka DD 5.1) instead.
    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    Patrick_4Author
    Contributor I
    June 3, 2019
    Thank you!