We just recovered from a power outage. Sorry.

Yes, that is something that is wrong. Like I indicated earlier : it is your 1) causing it, the other errors following from that.
This is wrong by itself in the code indeed (loading through the errors).

That reencoding can help is not strange.
That other programs may not be bothered by it is not strange as well. Think of this : I always respected the length as indicated in the header (think normal WAV files now). Today I changed that by, say, just using the physical file length. This is not the way it should go, but it is less error-prone anyway.
Doing this for FLAC is not so easy (at all), because the file length is unrelated to the original file length (as you might have expected). BUT :
The only reason why I grab the file length from the header data, is in order to present the time, which in the end *is* important, thinking of the bottom slider ... That by itself causing "synchronization" with the playback, as you in fact noticed earlier.

Internally they are decoded to WAV anyway, but apparently something is kind of officially wrong in your "originals" ?
They are 44.1/16 ?

Hi,

Actually it is time to start downloading Vista/SP1 and all, so I'll take 64 bit with it.
So far I never had the time, and it never had priority.
No guarantees, because so far nobody knows actually *why* it won't run. It just should but doesn't.

a. If this is Vista, this looks like a case of numerous services shut down. By itself this is no problem, but when they do during playing, it can cause cracks (less to worse. ending up in bad).

b. Those tracks with the same length (time) sure don't look right. I.e. this looks like trouble. How do you do that ? Can you repeat *that* ?

Would you like that Left, Right, or spread somehow ?

Found that. Currently for FLAC (MP3 as well btw ) only 44.1/16 is supported.

I'll squeeze it in.
Anything else ?

Question which I think may belong in this topic :

Is it me (never being oriented towards music DVDs), or are we doing here by kind of accident things which are rather new ?
I can hardly imagine that, but I mean, if I see how much excited people are to find another site with downloadable 96/24 material ... then I don't understand.
Of course, the DVD Audio (that's what we're talking about for the main part in this topic, right ?) is there to use by means of boxed players that can utilize them. But playing them (ripped) via software ... ?


Oldfashioned Peter

I just looked it up, and I don't see how that would work. However, by coincidence there's one parameter wrong only, and I think this is not important for playback, while the "attachment" of the DAC is so much tweaked by now that it actually does something else (not important for playback mode), but with the most important part that it's accepted.



I will build in the support for it officially. Seems better to me.

Ok, I use DVD Audio Extractor for it.
Not free.

Careful please, because I don't think any 44.1 or 48 setting supports 24 bit yet (for Input ! ... output it does (32 actually)).
Heck, the combinations seem endless.

Multi-channel is doable (and I always preserve good audio tracks from movies I watched, mainly the end tuses) but at this moment I don't have the faintest idea on how to do that DTS encoded, *or* it must work by itself already. So, the (for me) normal way would be PCM decoded, but *then* you guys would be having problems with the distribution of the channels, right ?

Here is the key to my being unexperienced on this, because I don't have a DTS decoder, and what I play is software decoded. So, my preserved audio from movies never got a chance so far to be played by XX, because *I*'d need the multi channel (PCM) support explicitly.

Btw, be very careful to follow the the good procedure and appropriate program to rip DTS from movies and preserve it. It is 100% easy to do it wrong and loose data (without much notice). I'm fairly sure Russ will recognize this *and* knows what to do/use  best, although I should know myself but need to dig up things when at home (didn't have much time for movie watching lately let alone ripping music from them).

I don't think kberge said this.
Downsampling does not take place.

I could make that (to 48K !), but I don't think it's the best thing to listen to. At the time things come down to "better that than nothing", IMO we are 10 years ahead at least, so *then* it has a good reason, weren't it that by then everybody has the DACs, or tweaked the input receiver the least. Hehe.

Hi Mani,

You are dealing with a complex of happenings here, and ultimately the error you provided is unrelated because of all.

All starts with your 1) and it looks like that or the error is inapplicable, or the proceeding with playing is.
I will look into this.

Thanks for your excessive outlay !
Peter

Thank you Mani.

Funny. Some year ago "we" were extensively seeking similarly, tried them all except for the UcD700 which wasn't available back then in its best version which was ... because I personally wanted it better which Bruno dove into. Then I waited for months and in the end never heard it. Might you be interested, here it happened : http://forum.bd-design.nl/forum_entry.php?id=12629&page=0&category=0&order=last_answer
(once you are there, switch to Board View (top right) which reads more conveniently).

Might you want to experience a lead-in with I think some good laughing, you can start here : http://forum.bd-design.nl/forum_entry.php?id=12555&page=0&category=0&order=last_answer where you will experience some guys with the finest systems and ears on earth, and which is the birth area of XXHighEnd at the same time.

Special message to Gerner : I just took 1.5 hours reading that back, and I laughed harder than I recall from back then.

Ok, this is one of the numerous threads in search for the best amp. We hired, bought, flew them in by courier 1000Km travel etc. - all (except for the UcD) and ended up with ... a GainClone. A special one though.

What happened to yours (since you now changed your sig) ?

Peter