Topic: 24 BIT FLAC WILL NOT PLAY IN WINAMP?

[THE NIZ BIAAAAACH!]

SSIA, can't get winamp to output audio, it plays it says the correct sample rate, and time, but no sound.   Also the file plays fine when decoded?

[todd e]

i would suggest getting a newer version of winamp, or try foobar (best idea, really!)

[bhtoque]

It started doing that to me recently too. Never had the problem before, but now I get no sound from 24bit flacs. The wav's are fine, just the flacs do it.

Very strange.

JAson

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Same here although I could never get flac24's to play right.  Although I got fuzzy static not no sound.  I moved to Foobar and have had no issues.

[jcrab66]

i have never had any trouble getting winamp to play 24 bit flacs

[THE NIZ BIAAAAACH!]

I found the answer!
go into preferences, file types, allow true 24bit

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Really?  Cool.  +t for the info.  Always wondered what the deal was.

[bhtoque]

I found the answer!
go into preferences, file types, allow true 24bit

+T dude.

Thanks,

JAson

[Gordon]

y'all should use foobar regardless

[georgeh]

why use foobar? jsut curious for your reason gordon

[kcmoejoe]

I've been a winamp fan since it came out years ago...guess its hard to change to something else, foobar looks kinda boring, does it have the cool visualizations or the fancy skins? 

I had trouble playing back 24/96 but I figured out that my soundcard is an old Dio 24/48 so that answered that question I had. 

[Simp-Dawg]

another reason winamp (or other audio programs) may have trouble with 24-bit is if you've saved them from cd wave without selecting "use alternate 24bit format".  apparently cd wave editor writes 24bit files in a weird way by default and i've had problems playing them or compressing them with foobar and flac.

[Gordon]

foobar looks kinda boring, does it have the cool visualizations or the fancy skins? 

that's why I love it!  nothing fancy!  just a great media player that uses WAY less resource and plays gapless without plugins.  oh and you can change the skins etc if you want.  I have no need for that.

oh and the live show tagger is enough reason to use foobar.

[pool]

foobar looks kinda boring, does it have the cool visualizations or the fancy skins? 

that's why I love it!  nothing fancy!  just a great media player that uses WAY less resource and plays gapless without plugins.  oh and you can change the skins etc if you want.  I have no need for that.

oh and the live show tagger is enough reason to use foobar.

I second that esp the gapless playback and a myraid of plugins.

[JasonSobel]

another reason winamp (or other audio programs) may have trouble with 24-bit is if you've saved them from cd wave without selecting "use alternate 24bit format".  apparently cd wave editor writes 24bit files in a weird way by default and i've had problems playing them or compressing them with foobar and flac.

just for clarification, the default 24-bit format that CD Wave writes to is a "new standard" defined by Microsoft.  the problem is, most programs haven't yet adopted the new "standard".  So, by selecting the "alternate 24-bit format" in CD Wave, it writes the files to the old standard that just about all programs can use.  However, the last two versions of FLAC (v1.1.3 released in Nov 2006 and v1.1.4 released in Feb '07) can handle either 24-bit WAV file format.  not to mention the greater compression ratios and the quicker compression times offered by the latest version of FLAC.  but all this is really a topic for another thread (and there have been threads about it).