bedrock Packet play_sound coordinates are wrong

[Bluebotlabz]

When I execute a command such as
/playsound beacon.activate @a 1 2 3 1 1
the resulting play_sound packet send by the server has completely different coordinates, after taking a look at some packets, I believe I have found the difference between the two

/playsound command coordinates	play_sound packet coordinates
1 2 3	12 16 28
1.5 2.5 3.5	12 20 28
0 0 0	4 0 4
1 1 1	12 8 12
0.5 0.5 0.5	4 4 4
0.5 0 0.5	4 0 4
0.25 0 0.25	2 0 2
0.125 0 0.125	1 0 1
0.1 0 0.1	0 0 0
0.124 0 0.124	0 0 0

this leads me to believe that normal coordinates are being converted as so:

1. If coordinate is whole number +.5 (except for Y)
2. Multiply coordinate by 8
3. Round down

Why does this happen?

Also, for some entity data packet that I have, the difference appears to be different:

actual entity coordinates	play_sound packet coordinates
{"x": -1.1718597412109375, "y": -23, "z": 9.035000801086426}	{"x":-6,"y":-189,"z":71}
{ x: 23.53493309020996, y: -20, z: -15.242581367492676 }	{"x":186,"y":-162,"z":-126}

Note: the level_sound_event packet does give the correct coordinates

[extremeheat]

Moved your issues to minecraft-data

[Cdm2883]

It's not a problem with minecraft-data, it's a problem with the official packets. The exact reason for the creation of this feature is beyond my knowledge.

This is evidenced by the definition of pmmp.
https://github.com/pmmp/BedrockProtocol/blob/8d63f39bb2cded3d3e578fd3cf7bc769b9674857/src/PlaySoundPacket.php

[extremeheat]

Hmm, not sure why they are shifting 3 bits, but yes looks like something to be handled by the user.