I'm sorry I have to reply,
This is what I planned with my Pink Triangle Anniversary SME V Frog but never achieved.
The memory of my highest enjoyment of music (next to live) goes to a simple tape of an lp played with a simple MD-pickup,

For the 88/96 I upsampled with r8brain, free and not the worst, but I'm sure you can do it better/perfect.!
But please tell us your plans because ripping all the CD's (and lp's) to 88/24 is a lot of work!

About Vista I am puzzled still, the shared 24/96 properties in my laptop I have to set with the realtek stereo mixer which is shut off by default.
If I change them I get some extra messages from you/your program.

Bass integration now is good, perfect whatever, it seems you only notice it when things are wrong.
I read a long time ago that if the treble is better the bass sounds improved too, must be happening here for sure.

What is a peep??

Finally some oportunity to compare different modes.
I upsampled cassandra wilsons' blue light till dawn to 96/24 and to 88/24.
The 96/24 can play in exclusive mode, the 88 in shared mode.
The difference between them is that in exclusive mode I have extra small detail in the highs,
my tweeter sounds 'high end' in stead of a regular one like before.
The violins sound spectacular and when cassandra stops singing now you can hear her going one very softly.
Both versions and also 16bit 44 have a perfect bass, compared to the previous version the rhytm is back,
I was really afraid my TDL transmissionlines were ready for e-bay!

Then of course the peace is back, my wife can even do her homework while I play David Bowie, Rebel Rebel,
a song which brings back the memory of having fun with lp's, which is really back!
Even when you feel sick the music is like a medicine that soothes your soul.
(Maybe I have a fever and better stop!)

BTW I was thinking of better integration of the left and right channel, like before their was an option on a FM-tuner
to make the treble mono. Call it inter channel jitter-reduction.
Don't laugh to loud, hope I can give some fun back.

Hi Peter,

To be more clear, I guess exclusive mode for the terratec is only possible if you feed it 32 bits?
And if so is it possible for you to make it an option to add the extra bits when playing a 16 bit file?

Sorry I did not read well, but tried to help.

He Edward,

If you try DAC is 16 bit, 44kHz?
This worked for me although my Dac (Terratec) is 192kHz and 24 or 32 bit!!

Heee,

I changed the setting to 32 bits (most often) and got some new messages and it started to play.
After stop and play it started to play without messages!!!!!
Keep my fingers crossed!

And the volumecontrol of the laptop has no effect so this must be exclusive mode 

With 16bit/44kHz I can not choose the 32 bit option, with 24/96 it is possible, maybe a small change for this?

No change, 96/24 gives the same messages, with other numbers.
Here are the pictures:

Eureka!

I get music now.

I changed the setting to "DAC is 16 bits 44.1kHz" and I get some messages (see below) and the music starts to play. If I set the setting to 24/192 the problem as reported before happens again.
As you can see there are now less messages.
I don't know if the sound is better this way?
I can not hear it now, vacuum cleaner, hairdryer and two crying/playing children (those sundays are good for family life  )

BTW I also got the Invalidarg at some time.
I'll try to see if I get more out of it today.
Looks like it is worth the trouble.

Hi Peter,

Before I could play with engine 3 and only got the message about exclusive mode.

After I instaalled 9u0 I get these messages for all the settings I tried.
If I change samplerate to something else than 44.1 I get an extra message about a wrong samplerate,
so that's not the problem I think.
The first message I showed I get too when I change the volumesetting.

BTW When I clear the playlist one song remains and I can not get it out in any way...

Hi Peter,

I installed 09Uo and get the following messages, no sound.:

The last picture shows the settings.

I bet on sunday, like most new releases!

Haha,
So I guess your not gonna tell us!
Let's see if my ears can hear what's happening.

Waiting only makes it better, or Peter, you get new ideas and we can enjoy it after.
In the mean time our curiosity gets stronger and I was thinking what you are going to do with those extra bits?
Are you trying to get extra definition in there, like trying to calculate all the right bits.
Then what are you going  to do to do this, I mean 16 bit music will often be derived from 24 bits and the last 8 bits removed and some dither added.
Will it be possible to reconstruct this in a way that comes close to the original? I guess you can not undo the dither-effect or is that possible?
Or do you just leave those extra bits at zero?

For HDCD you need the special chip in your DAC like a PCM100 if I recall correctly.
My Rotel has one and I can only say that all the HDCD's I have sound better.
But it is to my ears especcially the bass that becomes more lifelike.
Why does the extra resolution give better base???
And why does XX give so much better base??
Peter??