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Title: Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: MattD on March 02, 2004, 09:18:00 AM
... to write a 24-bit FLAC plugin for MacAmp or some other OSX audio application?

Anyone ever done any development for CoreAudio?
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: mgleason007 on March 06, 2004, 01:09:00 AM
A Mac has a 24 bit sound card?
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: greenone on March 06, 2004, 10:43:13 AM
Quote from: mgleason007 on March 06, 2004, 01:09:00 AM
A Mac has a 24 bit sound card?

There are plenty of 24-bit sound cards that are Mac-compatible...
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: MattD on March 06, 2004, 11:29:01 AM
Greenone is right on that point. The problem is that there is no way to play back FLAC files like there is on a PC (Winamp plugin), so you have to decompress and listen to the WAVs. Major PITA! I know enough about programming that if I had something to work from, I could probably write a plugin, but I'll be damned if I'd have to develop an application too!
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: scb on March 06, 2004, 11:30:47 AM
work from the audio plugin examples (for itunes) from the developer tools
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: John Kelly on March 06, 2004, 11:48:36 AM
Quote from: MattD on March 06, 2004, 11:29:01 AM
Greenone is right on that point. The problem is that there is no way to play back FLAC files like there is on a PC (Winamp plugin), so you have to decompress and listen to the WAVs. Major PITA! I know enough about programming that if I had something to work from, I could probably write a plugin, but I'll be damned if I'd have to develop an application too!

MacAmp will play FLACs, but I dunno about 24bit FLACs...
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: MattD on March 06, 2004, 02:02:52 PM
Will either macamp or iTunes play 24/48 and 24/96 WAV/AIFFs? If they can't do this, the answer is not a plugin, but rather a new/mod application.
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: John Kelly on March 06, 2004, 04:03:26 PM
Heh, what do you know.  MPlayer plays 24 bit flacs just fine.  I downloaded one of your flacs from the CL acoustic show, Matt, and it opened automatically in MPlayer and I'm listening to it right now. ;)

http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: MattD on March 06, 2004, 04:15:34 PM
do you have any 24/96 to try it with? even just artifically upsample that one and re-encode just to see
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: John Kelly on March 06, 2004, 04:23:02 PM
Alright, gimme a few minutes and I'll try it out.
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: MattD on March 06, 2004, 04:32:32 PM
A friend of mine trying it too said 24/96 plays back as if it were 48 ... 1/2 speed. Is this what you're finding?

Edit: this has already been submitted as a bug on their sourceforge page.

Edit 2: Is track-to-track playback gapless?
Title: Re:Does anyone have the know-how ...
Post by: John Kelly on March 06, 2004, 04:43:58 PM
Yeah, finding the same thing.  Dunno about track to track, I never use it. ;)