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Is there any benefit to getting all relevant audio tracks? For instance one of my first rips has Dolby 7.1, 5.1 and stereo. VLC seems to handle them all fine with only the 2 speakers at my computer. I assume most any halfway decent modern software will do the same.

I think the Dolby 7.1 stream sounds the best of the 3 and keeping only that one would optimize the file size, so long as it will not cause problems with future playback.

Ripping, I get all of them. Post-rip processing, I cut out a lot, based on my usage. Sometimes, I find that the 5.1 track is NOT the audio from the feature... that's only stereo.