Topic: 24 BIT FLAC WILL NOT PLAY IN WINAMP?

[hawghunter]

When playing a 24 bit FLAC in WinAmp the kbps meter reads only 1552. But when the WAV is played the meter reads 2304. Why would that be? I wonder if I encoded it wrong in FLAC. Any feed back? Thanks!

[boojum]

foobar will convert to 24 bit FLAC from WAV files.  And for sure, foobar will be able t play it.   

[hawghunter]

foobar will convert to 24 bit FLAC from WAV files.  And for sure, foobar will be able t play it.   

Yes, but the FLAC kbps is much lower compared to the wav file. So maybe I'm off topic but, that doesn't seem right. for the kbps to drop by a 1/3 because it's flac'd, or am I missing something here?

[F.O.Bean]

that is weird. im pretty sure in fb2k, it shows the same kbps read on both wav and flac. i quit using winamp years ago because of the old gapless playback thing, and have loved fb2k for years now

[Brian Skalinder]

Yes, but the FLAC kbps is much lower compared to the wav file. So maybe I'm off topic but, that doesn't seem right. for the kbps to drop by a 1/3 because it's flac'd, or am I missing something here?

Same here.  I think Foobar just calculates it based on the file sizes and header info.  On my system (Foobar v0.9.4.2), the kbps ratio of FLAC:WAV is the same as my file size ratio of FLAC:WAV.  I don't worry about it, at any rate.

[hawghunter]

Yes, but the FLAC kbps is much lower compared to the wav file. So maybe I'm off topic but, that doesn't seem right. for the kbps to drop by a 1/3 because it's flac'd, or am I missing something here?

Same here.  I think Foobar just calculates it based on the file sizes and header info.  On my system, the kbps ratio of FLAC:WAV is the same as my file size ratio of FLAC:WAV.  I don't worry about it, at any rate.

Thanks Brian, that's makes sense. Maybe Bean can verify. +t.

that is weird. im pretty sure in fb2k, it shows the same kbps read on both wav and flac.

Bean, could you verify for me? just curious what you get, and make sure all is good. I want to torrent my 24 bit, 48kHz of Roger Waters from Summerfest 7/2/2007. Thanks, +t.

Edit: the more I think about it Brian is right, because I don't think I've ever seen my 16bit FLAC files anywhere near that # on the kbps meter. Thanks again.