Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Julf
Learnincurve wrote: > this is the same tool that I would use to re-extract from the original > iso's - which I still have and which contain metadata that can be > included in the dsf's if I re-extract, but which is lost in the dff's. Ah! Fair enough. :) "To try to judge the real from the fal

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Learnincurve
Julf wrote: > What compression format is it? There are programs on linux for most > formats. >From googling, it looks as if the dff files are dst-encoded data, which is a lossless compressed format, as opposed to DSD, which is uncompressed and is the usual audio format in dsf files. You are al

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Julf
Learnincurve wrote: > Feel a bit stupid here, but the reason the .dff's are not playing is > that they are compressed. It's quite a while since I put them there and > I had forgotten the workflow that produced them. Anyway, as I can't find > an easy way to uncompress them on Linux, or to play t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Learnincurve
:rolleyes: Feel a bit stupid here, but the reason the .dff's are not playing is that they are compressed. It's quite a while since I put them there and I had forgotten the workflow that produced them. Anyway, as I can't find an easy way to uncompress them on Linux, or to play them as they are,

[SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-18 Thread Learnincurve
Hi, I user squeezelite with LMS 7.9 and now, finally have a DoP-capable DAC. I am not currently able to try playing DSD directly as the kernel version on my player is limited to 3.10. When that limitation is lifted and a mainline kernel is available for my player device, DSD should work as the D