Here’s a guide to finding and verifying a high-quality FLAC 51 surround (5.1 surround sound) copy of the Complete Lord of the Rings Original Soundtrack (usually referring to Howard Shore’s scores for the trilogy).
1. Know what “Complete” and “51” actually mean
Complete Recordings – Official 3–4 CD sets per film (e.g., The Complete Recordings by Reprise Records). These contain extended/alternate cues not in the theatrical soundtracks. 5.1 surround (51) – Multichannel FLAC (typically 6 channels: front L/R, center, surround L/R, LFE). Official 5.1 sources exist only on:
The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy – The Complete Recordings (Blu-ray Audio discs) Some DVD-Audio or Blu-ray releases with 5.1 Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD MA. lord of the rings complete ost flac 51 surro high quality
FLAC 5.1 is rare officially; most surround mixes are in lossless Dolby TrueHD/DTS-MA. You may need to transcode those to FLAC 5.1.
2. Official sources for 5.1 lossless Blu-ray Audio box set (2015ish) – The Lord of the Rings: The Complete Recordings
Contains each film’s complete score on Blu-ray audio in 24-bit / 48 kHz DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 . Also has stereo 24/48 PCM. Here’s a guide to finding and verifying a
How to extract FLAC 5.1 from this:
Rip Blu-ray with MakeMKV (backup decrypted). Use eac3to + ffmpeg to decode DTS-HD MA to 6-channel FLAC : eac3to input.dtshd output.flac
or ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0:a:0 -c:a flac -strict -2 output.flac These contain extended/alternate cues not in the theatrical
Result: Genuine 24-bit 48 kHz 5.1 FLAC .
3. Unofficial sources (if you cannot buy/rip) Private music trackers / P2P Search for: