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SDL 16-Bit Limitation

Added by Jake Walker almost 10 years ago

Hi,

I am new to Audacious, and I use it to play mainly hi-fi FLAC files. However, my question is that since the SDL playback engine only supports 16-Bit audio, does that mean that the bit-depth of my 24-Bit files is being down converted to 16-Bit?

Regards,

- audioMan


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RE: SDL 16-Bit Limitation - Added by John Lindgren almost 10 years ago

Yes, everything is currently played as 16-bit on Windows. Someday a native (DirectSound?) output plugin will be implemented.

Edit: Native Win32 output (waveOut API) is coming in Audacious 3.8.

RE: SDL 16-Bit Limitation - Added by Jake Walker almost 10 years ago

John,

Thank you for your reply. What about on Linux?

- audioMan

RE: SDL 16-Bit Limitation - Added by John Lindgren almost 10 years ago

On Linux, it will depend on how the system is configured, but the ALSA and PulseAudio plugins both support higher bit depths.

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