On Thursday 12 June 2008 20:10:04 Chris Smith wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Florian Faber wrote: > > What makes you think converting a 16 bit unsigned integer to a IEEE > > 32 bit float and back would change the value? > Should have used a 24 bit example. I'm of the opinion that with it > the process is not always a bit perfect translation. But I'm open to > correction. On IEEE 32 bit floats the mantissa is 23 bit, so there might be situations where you loose the LSB. The original poster made no specification about the resolution and sample rate of the FLACs he wants to play. Since they can be almost anything (4-32 bits/sample, up to 1MHz sample rate), he has to be more specific. So, if he listens to CD audio converted to FLAC, it's just 16bit/sample and 44.1kHz and thus well within an 'unmolested' range by any standard. And please, look at the weakest link in the chain: The original poster uses an USB DAC. I don't know of any USB box you can buy that actually shows true 24bit dynamic on the analogue side, but feel free to correct me. And as long as it doesn't support the sample rate in hardware, you can forget about it anyway. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key 6C002249 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
