getting 2ch stereo output m4a instead of multichannel for 360RA

[tcafranz]

am I doing something wrong? How do I get the 8 or 12 channels?

[tcafranz]

this is from MediaInfo:

General CompleteName : C:\Users*****\Music\Justin Timberlake\Everything I Thought It Was [350639046] [2024]\14 - What Lovers Do [360].m4a Format/String : iso8 CodecID/String : iso8 (mp41/dash/cmfc) FileSize/String : 2.78 MiB Duration/String : 3 min 42 s OverallBitRate_Mode/String : Constant OverallBitRate/String : 105 kb/s Cover : Yes

Audio ID/String : 1 Format/String : AAC LC SBR Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication Format_Commercial_IfAny : HE-AAC Format_Settings : NBC CodecID : enca-40 / mp4a-5 Duration/String : 3 min 42 s BitRate_Mode/String : Constant BitRate/String : 96.0 kb/s Channel(s)/String : 2 channels ChannelLayout : L R SamplingRate/String : 44.1 kHz FrameRate/String : 21.533 FPS (2048 SPF) Compression_Mode/String : Lossy StreamSize/String : 2.55 MiB (92%) Encryption : Encrypted ConformanceErrors : 1 Crosscheck : Yes CMAF : Yes channelConfiguration : CMAF does not permit USAC UsacConfig channelConfigurationIndex 0, permitted values are 1 and 2

[ebb-earl-co]

@tcafranz thank you for having raised an issue! You're the first person to have raised an issue to do with the Sony 360 RA format, so I haven't looked at it in a while. What should happen is that the track(s) is/are downloaded as a .mka file...

From the mediainfo output, that track is a regular old AAC stereo audio, not Sony 360 RA. What was the command that you used for this track? If you want to try again, it should be

$ tidal-wave https://listen.tidal.com/album/350639046 --audio-format 360 --loglevel debug

If you execute that, could you get the logs and add it as a file to your response here on GitHub?

[tcafranz]

@ebb-earl-co PowerShell 7 (x86)_tidal-wave 360RA debug.txt

yea I don't even know where to start with all this but here you go. Appreciate the help. I've managed to get Dolby Atmos 6 channels just fine but never had any success with 360RA until yesterday when I actually got it to download SOMETHING.

The command I used to get that file was

$ tidal-wave --audio-format 360 https://tidal.com/browse/track/350639062

[ebb-earl-co]

I’m not a Powershell expert, but near the end of the logs you added, it seems to be complaining that there is no ffmpeg installed on your system. Have you got ffmpeg?

Separately, in order to retrieve Sony 360 audio files, you need an access token from an Android device (TIDAL’s specification, not mine). It looks as if you used the access token from a Windows machine, which works great, but only for HiRes.

[tcafranz]

😭 I only have apple or windows to get access token from.... ughhhh... yes I have ffmpeg I don't know why it's saying I don't. I wouldn't suppose you'd be kind enough to grab that album for me (well for my wife). 🫤

[ebb-earl-co]

@tcafranz if you have no Android devices, it's possible to use something like BlueStacks to get an Android virtual machine on your Windows host, but I haven't done that...

[tcafranz]

@ebb-earl-co thanks ill check it out.