Hello Max.
Thanks for commenting.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:
> I understand your problem, but most of the time, it's the other way
> round: people have 24 bit audio (the libmad decoder emits 24 bit
> audio!), and their sound hardware wants 16 bit.  Your change would do
> the opposite, it would lose more precision.

I never thought about breaking existing behaviour.
I suggested to add one more convert filter.
So advanced users could manually control format before and after filter chain.

> What we need is better internal logic for conversion.  If you need 24
> bit anyway, sure, convert to 24 bit as early as possible.  OTOH,
> libsamplerate deals with floating point samples only...  It's not so
> simple!
>
> We could make a rule: make that two conversion plugins.  Never convert
> "down" before the other filters, and never convert "up" after the
> other filters.  This would get the best our of both cases.

It's the almost the same as I thought, but I think manual
configuration would be more flexible.

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