Olav Sunde;185904 Wrote: > Phil Leigh wrote: > > Reading another amusing thread on the merits of streaming flac vs > wav > > reminded me to post in this thread... > > > > If you insist in streaming WAV you will not be able to play the > 24-bit > > flacs - they transcode into white noise! > The 24bit files that WMP outpts are actually 20bit files with 4bits > added it seems. FLAC simply remove the empty 4bits when encoding and > the > FLAC ends up as a 20bit file. My SB plays the FLAC file, but with to > > low volume. To fix this I open the Cronotron WAV in Adobe Audition and > > resave it in the same format. This WAV plays on the SB and the FLAC > file > is 24bit. > > > > Stick with streaming FLAC and the 24 bit-files play fine... > > > > or do they? Can anyone confirm that if we send a 24-bit FLAC to the > SB > > it comes out as 24-bit PCM (into the DAC) and not a 16-bit one? > > > >
Olav - you are using a slightly different process to me. I take the WMP WAVOUT file (which won't play on an SB as it is a "non-standard" 20/24-bit WAVEX format - but I don't care as I don't stream WAV) and open it in Audacity 1.3. Then I save it as a 24-bit FLAC from Audacity (this only works in 1.3 which supports 24-bit FLAC). Audacity opens the 20-bit wav as a 32-bit float file which is then rescaled to 24-bit during the FLAC encoding AFAIK. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
