It's that time again. The Battle of the Five Armies End Credits Suite is now available in lossless 7.1 surround sound! This is sourced straight from the Blu-Ray DTS-HD MA 7.1 soundtrack.
The biggest issue with this release is that The Last Goodbye is NOT mixed in 7.1, but is instead mixed in Stereo.... I'm not sure what the decision was behind this, but they literally just emptied the 4 rear channels and LFE channel during the song.
The Last Goodbye has a ~7 second extended intro which is notable.
The links below are for the End Credits Suite in 7.1 24/48 FLAC and a 24/48 stereo version of The Last Goodbye.

End Credits Suite [FLAC 7.1]: https://mega.co.nz/#!TVsE3JpL!CZK-8bc4qEBLyLQ7L-tMCa9GUXSS1wy0WeCQ5k88y1o

The Last Goodbye [FLAC Stereo]: https://mega.co.nz/#!rYVDyS6R!O0XJ2pU7Lyy647FkBfCMBSNMAjQiedSoTNBi68_ zumI

Wow... the song is still in stereo, huh? I'm surprised Jackson let that one slide.

Thanks!

Thank you. :)

Thank you so much!

Any chance for a stereo one for the credits music? Or could someone tell me how to make it stereo so I save up some work for you?

Do it in Audacity. If it's 7.1, the first two channels should be stereo, the next two are mono, the next two are stereo, and the next two are also stereo.

Then export it all to a stereo music file.

If the first two films are anything to judge by, the end credits music will not be any different in the extended version. But we can still hope... :D

fantastic .. thanks a lot

thx :)

I can't believe it.

I wonder if the special features have anything to say for the mixing on that song.
it could have been Billy Boyd's idea to keep it in stereo.
or it could have been a recording limitation when they did that song.

Do it in Audacity. If it's 7.1, the first two channels should be stereo, the next two are mono, the next two are stereo, and the next two are also stereo.

Then export it all to a stereo music file.

I would actually recommend using eac3to.
It will run a second pass if there is clipping involved.

Exporting in stereo blindly may result in clipping.

For stereo downmix in Audacity, you'd have to get it to downmix to stereo and make sure "show clipping" is enabled to look for any clipping. And then apply normalization (peak; not RMS) in case there is clipping involved after downmix.
Giving each channel a power of 1.00 is wrong for stereo downmixes.
eac3to has presets for downmixing to stereo.
-downStereo
-downDPL (don't use this. you gain nothing from DPL encoding if you're not going to listen to it surround sound with DPL decoding. coefficients for each channel here are recommended only for DPL decoding receivers. you can't gain anything fancy or experiment with this beyond what is already given; more for movies anyway).

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.