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Title: playback of flac24's?
Post by: ~~~> on August 08, 2006, 10:02:22 PM: Is there a media player out there that can play flac24's? Whenever I play them through winamp it's all scratchy and messed up. Anyone?
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: JasonSobel on August 08, 2006, 10:03:19 PM: get foobar 2000
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: newscane on August 08, 2006, 10:03:32 PM: Quote from: the_real_david_hasselhoff_bitch on August 08, 2006, 10:02:22 PM
Is there a media player out there that can play flac24's? Whenever I play them through winamp it's all scratchy and messed up. Anyone?
For one thing, you need a 24-bit sound card...
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: ~~~> on August 08, 2006, 10:08:25 PM: Thanks Jason. I'll give it a try.

Quote from: newscane on August 08, 2006, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: the_real_david_hasselhoff_bitch on August 08, 2006, 10:02:22 PM
Is there a media player out there that can play flac24's? Whenever I play them through winamp it's all scratchy and messed up. Anyone?
For one thing, you need a 24-bit sound card...

I don't think that's it at all. My 24 bit wavs play fine. Just flac.
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: F.O.Bean on August 13, 2006, 04:19:20 AM: i used winamp for YAERS until i discovered foobar 2000, hands down the best music player for a PC
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: jcrab66 on August 13, 2006, 05:46:41 AM: i have no problem with 24 bit files and winamp
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: F.O.Bean on August 13, 2006, 05:49:27 AM: Quote from: jcrab66 on August 13, 2006, 05:46:41 AM
i have no problem with 24 bit files and winamp

is it configured for 24-bit? i know foobar has that option in preferences, i didnt know it was there til recently
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: baustin on August 20, 2006, 11:32:29 AM: FWIW, I have no problems playing 24/96 in winamp.
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: RebelRebel on August 20, 2006, 12:03:25 PM: I had no problem with winamp or foobar. went with foobar ultimately as it utilized fewer resources. If I am not mistaken, winamp requires a flac plugin?
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: momule on August 27, 2006, 09:36:54 AM: Quote from: baustin on August 20, 2006, 11:32:29 AM
FWIW, I have no problems playing 24/96 in winamp.

Same here. Even with an old 700 mhz machine.
It’s all about how it’s configured
Title: Re: playback of flac24's?
Post by: it-goes-to-eleven on August 27, 2006, 09:56:15 AM: The important point here is that no software can fully overcome the limitations of your hardware. And everyone's experience will depend on what audio source, playback client, driver and hardware they are using.

For example.. If you have a ua5 connected to your PC in 16/44 mode, that is all that it will play. Your playback software, or the driver, must convert that audio to 16/44 before sending to the ua5. There are many ways to do that conversion and some are pretty nasty.

So just because you can 'play' a 24 bit file doesn't mean you are hearing 24 bit playback, etc.