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I've not been able to get these files to play in Win 7. I dual boot with Linux Mint, and Linux plays the files just fine. If this is true, it explains a lot, because I thought something was wrong with my Windows set up. I use a Furutech GT40 USB DAC.
First thing to know is that I'm a relative novice with Linux and PC - based audio, so feel free to regard my post against that backdrop. Also, my DAC is limited to a 96khz sample rate. However, if your Linux distribution of choice comes with a Linux kernel that dates from mid-2010 or beyond (which would include most Linux distros), Linux will support playback of files with sample rates up to 384khz.
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Therefore, playback of hi-res files is limited only to the ability of your DAC. You might also imagine a DAC that interfaces with your PC via proprietary software should be avoided with a Linux set up. Its one of the "drawbacks" of computing in the "open source" world. My USB is a Furutech GT40 DAC. The DAC is plug and play with both Linux and Windows 7.
My laptop is nothing fancy - an Acer 5736Z. Is has only USB (3) and HDMI (1) connections, so I'm accessing my music via a Seagate Go-Flex external USB drive and playback through a USB DAC. Supposedly, a USB hard drive and USB DAC combo is a no-no, but it sounds great to me.
I chose Linux Mint for my Linux distro, through frankly any number of distros would have worked out. Due to its orientation for Linux newbies - though it is also well suited for advanced users - Linux Mint and Mepis Linux were the two final candidates in my search for the right a Linux OS for my needs. At the end of the day, I picked Mint because of a personal preference for the Gnome user interface. There's also a bit more software that integrates well / easily with Gnome due to the ubiquity of Ubuntu.
Generally speaking, the selection of playback software in Linux doesn't matter quite as much with the default set up. That's because most versions of Linux come with a single back-end processing engine that handles the conversion and output of the signal. Therefore, the software is simply an interface that allows the selection of the media files that the back-end will process. As long as the back-end processing sounds good to your ears, then the playback software is simply a matter of personal taste. Linux Mint comes with a pretty full featured music player by default: Rhythmbox.
There are also all kinds of anonmaly with motherboard audio in which 32 bit files won't play and where 88.2/176.4k sample rates are not supported in WASAPI. This happens with Realtek drivers and chips. However, the drivers that come with ATI graphics cards don't have this issue and wqorks well with the same chips!
This is not true, just that 88.2 and 176.4 are not supported as Windows kernel mixer/rate converter output rates. Then it depends on used player software and settings if the Windows core audio is used.
I don't see how these are related. Different piece of hardware, different capabilities. Even with the same chipset, the hardware codec chip (doing A/D and D/A conversions) may have rate limitations while HDMI connected to the same chipset doesn't because it has different clocking mechanism.
Since the subject says "24bit/88.2khz playback in Windows 7" I can say that there's absolutely no problem playing back 24-bit 88.2 kHz on Windows 7 through WASAPI Exclusive with any good piece of hardware and software. Same goes for 176.4 kHz. Natively, no conversion needed.
No, you are making generalized statements based on what Foobar can do on a certain hardware. There's no problem stating that Foobar can do X on Realtek hardware. But generalizing that X cannot be done on Realtek hardware in general is wrong.
I do have bunch of different pieces of hardware with different Realtek chips. No trouble playing 32-bit files (unrelated). Some of those don't support 88.2 or 176.4, but that's not a problem for me at all, since I can still play everything converted to 192 kHz on-the-fly.
No, it is not trying to be like every other player. It has it's own philosophy and use paradigms. If you want to learn how it works, forget how other software players work and start with a fresh mind set and read the manual.
For example think that the library is set of albums (CDs), not files. You can virtual load any of these albums for playback, just like you would load CD into player. Try loading five tracks from five different CD's into traditional CD player at once (now playlist mode supports this, but it is not how I personally use the player).
But if you want to bring WASAPI into picture, you have to acknowledge that it has two different modes with two different properties. And that in other of these modes it can support anything the underlying hardware+driver combination can do. While the other of the two modes has certain limitations on output rates, but not on input rates or bit depths.
Well, at least I've written software using WASAPI APIs and I know what is possible and what is not with those. I could post logs showing that for example M2Tech hiFace doesn't have any problems supporting 88.2/24 and 176.4/24 with WASAPI Exclusive. Or the same for various PCI/PCIe cards. Even DSD (2822.4/1) works over WASAPI Exclusive in bunch of different ways.
"Since the subject says "24bit/88.2khz playback in Windows 7" I can say that there's absolutely no problem playing back 24-bit 88.2 kHz on Windows 7 through WASAPI Exclusive with any good piece of hardware and software. Same goes for 176.4 kHz. Natively, no conversion needed."
I've been trying to get the 24/88.2 files to play with foobar using WASAPI exclusive with no luck. Last night, just for kicks, I switched output from WASAPI to DirectSound, and the 88.2 files played just fine. Now I'm scratching my head.
DirectSound is one of the least direct audio interface in Windows Vista and 7, and goes through the Windows Audio Engine (aka kernel mixer) which performs sample rate and sample format conversions. It is considered legacy API and supported through emulation.
I do not support 32bit float files. But *if* I would, the first thing I'd do is convert to 32 bit integer (which as a matter of fact is just driver addressing in this case). Anyway, what you would see is that 32 bit integer would come out, or 24 bit when your hardware won't swallow 32 bits. Don't ask me *how* you would see this, but if you can, you would see just that (Pro driver's control panels may).
WASAPI actually is sh*t all over, because the developer (me, Miska, other Peter) has to do everything (really everything) when it is about Exclusive Mode. This is different with Shared Mode, because all is dealt with by Windows. So, stuff in X and Y comes out because Y only *can* come out. What is *can* ? well, what you set yourself in the Device's properties (the output sample rate for Shared Mode, not that *that* is a transparent thing !).
When your device does not support Y, you denote Z and Z comes out. Remember, Shared Mode. If you now hop over to Exclusive Mode, you can still try to put out Y, but now suddenly things don't work. Why ? well, Y is not supported in your case and ... I (developer) am not able to divert this to Z. The only thing I can do is let Windows do it for me, which means Shared Mode again.
The situation of 88.2/176.2 not being able to play, is a kind of the other way around. I want 88.2 to come out, use (a player with) Shared Mode, but all what comes out is ... what you set in those same properties I mentioned before (output rate for Shared Mode). And what did I denote there ? well, not 88.2 or 176.4, because it is no option (totally stupid it is not, but blame Bill, or actuallly AmirM). So I denoted e.g. 192. And thus my desired 88.2 comes out as 192.
When I like the 88.2 to come out as intended (bit perfect and all), I MUST use Exclusive Mode, because that can do all (97.2 of you want). Great. But *now* suddenly all can turn against you, which is when the device does not support it. And now - back to square 1 - I (the player/developer) can not help you because no means exist to select another (re)sample rate on ad-hoc basis. All I can do is select Shared Mode and let come out whatever you set in those properties (of course many months back and you forgot).
Now think further. I do not allow Shared Mode ever. I think Miska does not either, and I know other Peter does not. This means that your device will nicely never play in such a player, when the sample rate is not supported by the hardware.
In XXHighEnd (but no difference for HQPlayer etc.), I can play 352.8, 384, 705.6 and 768. Remember, "we" allow for Exclusive Mode only. This is exactly why it can work, because as said, Exclusive Mode can do all "we" want. In Shared Mode this will never work, because there's no option for those settings in the device properties. If your player allows for it in Shared Mode, all you'd get is what you selected there (don't ask me whether Windows will downconvert from those higher rates; maybe not, I never tried).
Kernel Streaming is not much different from WASAPI Exlusive Mode, and in the end is what it is all about under the hood (let's call it WDM). But *now* suddenly other parts play a role, and we call that drivers. What they allow for WASAPI may not be allowed for KS - and the other way around. Early HiFace drivers are the example of the latter, while Lynx is an example of the former in their latest drivers. So, this confuses too but will come somewhat more direct to you, because you just can't select the driver ("device") for the rate you want (if there at all).
The USB device converts the analog signal to digital. It remains digital all the way into Audacity (and all the way to the hard drive, and back out again on playback until it reaches the Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) in the playback device / sound card).
The main down side is, as you say, it requires double the disk space while you are working on the project. However, if you are so critically low on disk space that that is a problem, then you are likely to run into other problems such as random crashes, severe disk fragmentation, poor disk I/O performance, etc. Disk space is cheap these days (even SSD drives are pretty reasonable), so disk space should be a non-issue.
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