Re: CA on MSWin?
Re: CA on MSWin?
- Subject: Re: CA on MSWin?
- From: "René J.V. Bertin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:00:06 +0100
On Dec 21, 2012, at 21:43, Paul Davis wrote:
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> switching the h/w rate is ... if not exactly evil, then unfriendly. DP does this, and its bloody irritating to have it think that it owns the hardware when in fact other applications are using it at the existing rate.
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> if the rates do not match then either (1) ask the user what to do or (2) resample.
Unfriendly? To whom or what, and who are you to make such declarations (nothing personal though)? I think it's the user's choice, if s/he wants to be buggered each time a song requires a rate change, or lose sound quality, so be it. I'm among those who consider that I'm the one to decide, and when *I* am listening to my music that's the only thing that counts. Any other application that wants to output sound will have to adapt. Not me. I couldn't care less if other applications are muted when I'm playing music - in fact, I'd prefer if they were.
Ask the user? Sure - but also give him the option to answer once and for all, not "resample", but "match input rate" or something of the sort.
So, unfriendly? Yeah, it's the right term indeed. For Apple's stance on this, and the fact one has to jump through such loops in order to get bitperfect sound output when one owns content from varying sources and with varying sample rates. IMVHO.
Bloody irritating? Yeah, that, too.
In fact, most of the time I'm using a lowly netbook running Foobar2000 to drive my hifi set-up over HDMI. It 'captures' the output device so that the raw decoded stream goes to the AV amp. It so turns out that any other sound output (mostly) goes through the builtin sound system, using its current settings, because the HDMI output is captured.
I don't know what DP is, but I can't imagine many cases in which one wants to have more than 1 application doing high-quality bitperfect sound output - and those I can imagine would be with all sources agreeing on the sample rate as evidently there is no other solution. How many of those "other applications" actually care about the sample rate of the output device, rather than sending their content to the default CA output device and let it handle the hairy details?
R
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