It sure can work under XP, but keep in mind that you will not be able to prove that it is bit perfect. Also in XP you have the 64MB (WAV file size) limitation.

The help behind that little link in the left pane of the player shows the limitations. I hardly know them myself anymore !

Ok, this is to get warmed up a bit ...

For the official reporting of Exclusive Mode what's possible, below you can see in the first attachment that HD-Audio is capable of ... well ... almost nothing. But *also* you can see that a 96/24 file must be possible to play when upsampled to 192000 with the DAC set to "Needs 24." Ok, XX can't upsample to 192000 yet. So dead end here.

The second attachment shows the FireFace800. It can do everything ...
Yea ? NO ! because it can't accept 24 bits. This is a "needs 32" device.

Then it's more complicated, because behind the Fireface is the TwinDAC+ and I can't see through the FireFace. So now I just have to know that this DAC is 96/18 max, and it needs 32 bits for it. Or anyway the Fireface arranges for that.

The third is USB Audio with the TwinDAC+ connected. Officially the TwinDAC+ can (USB connected) do what is says there. But, this is probably (already) because it's squeezed by the USB Audio driver.

Well,

Haha, thank you pedal. Nice too hear !

Right now I'm working on some "analysis" function that can summ up the possibilities of the Sound Device. I think it's almost done. Putting it up is another matter because I was also in the middle of 44.1/16 -> 24/88.2 upsampling. It's not that much work anymore, but maybe not tonight.

Hi Terje,

Again thank you for your input. Also, a (late) warm welcome here !

Then, the both errors you mention, really have the file format as the cause. Both coincidentally different (WAV vs. FLAC), but anyway. BUT : I must tell you that at this moment I did not check FLAC 96/24, so that could be my bad. But I will check later today.

As I said earlier, please try to get a WAV from another source, no matter it plays in other players. The format in the file you use *is* wrong, but I could tweak it (and so far I did not spend time on that).

But if the format appears not to be wrong at all afterwards, I'm very sorry in advance, ok ?
Peter

Thank you for helping Terje.


Can you please try to indicate why this is ? it just should ... (but as you have seen things are rather confusing at this stage of time).
Also :

The picture from this post in this topic shows the normal USB Audio driver. Do you use a different one ?

Thanks,
Peter

Until it works for you. But wait a minute ...


This says the file isn't correctly organized. In the near future that will be attacked by me, but for now ... this just is so. IOW, try another (from another site !).

Peter

Yes. Which appears not to be true. E.g. : Version 0.9U feedback ...

For me it's confusing just the same Gerard.

When you ticked Double and it playes, you should be fine. Also, that info screen (3rd) shows the native file data.
Whether this is better for SQ is up to you. YMMV here. But you can try now !

That you just changed the setting from more than 16 bits to 16 bits, while the system auto-unticks the either 24 or 32 which was there (the "auto" is not much clear and will change in the next version).

Jus (re)tested it :

1. No.
2. No.
3. No.

USB Legacy Driver (expressing as USB Audio DAC - Loudspeakers).
TwinDAC+, for USB officially cabable of 48/16 max.

Most probably not. But you can always try !


And maybe find out that again it doesn't work ? hmm ...
But keep in mind, the uprating possibility from 44.1/16 to 88.2/24 seems important (no matter it apparently should be 96).
I say : 50% chance that I can solve it.

Edward,



Can you recognize what I was suggesting : that these "custom" settings are not 1:1 with what Vista shows in Properties - Advanced ?
I mean, I can just as well be wrong here, because almost every audio device that's not USB comes with its custom drivers. And they show in Properties - Advanced (as possible settings). Otoh I have the hunch it's kind of generic. For example, my Fireface shows two options in there it will never be able to play (both at 24bit-3byte options, while the Fireface can only use 24bit-4byte). And mind you, I only know this because RME was so kind to tell me. You can't see it (3byte and 4-byte options show the same).

Thanks.

Well, I said that a little differently of course :


So *I* have that, you don't. (yet)

That you cannot Double or Upsample at all, while before you obviously could, is the strange matter of ... well, I just thought of something ... !

Hehehe, I now realize that before, I set the appropriate settings to ask the DAC for its possibilities ... well, AFTER I ask that to the DAC (driver). This was a kind of quick-tweak to get that running a year ago. Today ... I do that as should, so I set it before asking the DAC. And there it gets rejected now ...
So it's my guess if I move *all* the settings to *after* asking the DAC, and let that asking be dummy 44.1/16, it would work.

I know, I'm talking to myself here, but I guess I just found the tweak to get things going while now they won't because of "bugs" in that part of Vista.

What I will do as well, is create an enumeration of what "your" soundcard will accept for playing. Just all the combinations it('s driver) doesn't reject, and report that. Can save you tons of time.

Peter

Piepjong.

Might you mean the joy of lp's themselves ... you are the first saying this. Ok, whether you meant to say this or not, this is an excerpt from the first version of the Release Notes of 0.9u-0 I never put up (didn't dare) :




Ah ! a piece of the puzzle. But I'm not sure yet what to make of it, ;
Strangely enough I can just Double to 88.2/24 (which I have working here now ) while this option is not listed in the Vista Audio Properties - Advanced (like 88.2 is not there at all and I could use 88.2/16 always). There would be no difference with my internally "converted" file and your home brew created I'm afraid ...
Note that I will *not* resample to 96 because it won't be good enough (says me). Now what ? out of solutions ?

I said it before to weha ... go get yourself another soundcard ...


To the good stuff again :


This is recognizeable all over. You are not the first who (indirectly) refers to phase changes. For me this was the first noticeable thing. I wasn't sure whether it was for better or for worse back then, but since I've been playing 0.9u for over two weeks without ever wanting to go back ... it must be a good thing. Also, once you know (or think) things about better phase integration took place, you can recognize more of it. Like I said elsewhere : it even has a high degree of better bass - mid/high integration. Or put differently : although the balance between highs and bass and everything in between seem to have changed to a large degree, nothing in my mind wants to change things. It seems there's a huge amount of headroom now on these matters ... somehow.

Someday we'll understand, and I have the hunch that I will be there to witness it.
But I'm peep of course.