Topic: xACT; 24/96???

[cleantone]

Can xACT decompress a 24/96 FLAC? I just tried and when loaded into DP it said the file was 16bit and 65khz or something. If it cannot is there a codec for MAC OS that can? Please aim me to it....

[scb]

it can. 

run the "shntool info" command on the file in xACT and verify that it is 24/96

have you tried to open it in anything else?

by DP you mean digital performer?
16/65khz is the max rate that quicktime can use, but DP should be using core audio so i'm not sure about that.  but xACT can most definitely handle 24/96 flac files.  I do it all the time

have you tried opening the decompressed file in another app?

[cleantone]

I had only tried it in DP at this point. I erased the decompressed files. DP can do 24/96 so I didn't think that was the issue. I decompressed to AIFF, maybe I need to go to WAV? Ever though about adding SDII options for a codec? I've always yearned for that! Let me check out a couple things...
Thanks Scott!

[cleantone]

See any issues here?

handled by:                   flac format module
length:                       15:03
WAVE format:                  0x0001 (Microsoft PCM)
channels:                     2
bits/sample:                  24
samples/sec:                  96000
average bytes/sec:            576000
rate (calculated):            576000
block align:                  6
header size:                  44 bytes
data size:                    520248576 bytes
chunk size:                   520248612 bytes
total size (chunk size + :  520248620 bytes
actual file size:             317258923 (compressed)
compression ratio:            0.6098
CD-quality properties:
  CD quality:                 no
  cut on sector boundary:     n/a
  long enough to be burned:   n/a
WAVE properties:
  non-canonical header:       no
  extra RIFF chunks:          no
Possible problems:
  inconsistent header:        no
  file probably truncated:    n/a
  junk appended to file:      n/a

[MattD]

If you're not running a core audio device via DP, I don't think it will properly open a high-resolution file. Do you have anywhere else to play it back? How about Spark?

[scb]

can you try opening it in any other app?  trying wav might be different, but i still don't understand why dp is thinking in quicktime and not core audio.

does dp need you to do anything special when importing 24/96 files?  do you have to choose an output that supports 24/96 for it to work correctly?

xACT just calls the flac program, and flac likes 24/96 just fine. 

[scb]

ahh matt beat me to it.  that might be it

[cleantone]

Interesting. When I decompressed to WAV and checked wth SHNtool they showed up 24/96 when I retried one as aiff it showed 32bit 96k.

I'm using DP with a MOTU 896 for playback. I don't usually record at 96k and typically use a VX Pocket for playback.

[scb]

do you speciifically have to choose use core audio playback in DP? 

[cleantone]

do you speciifically have to choose use core audio playback in DP? 

Nope!

Weird. It worked fine when decoding to WAV. Maybe AIFF is associated with Quicktime on my mac...

thanks guys! +t

[scb]

cool

DP always did seem a bit quirky to me