2012-01-29, 18:29
pike Wrote:Heh, my processor takes 7-10 seonds to adjust between stream changes, so (without me having read exactly what this does) I sure hope it's optional.
One feature I want with AE - to work around my processor's slow switching is to keep the same format when listening to music, say 24/96 5.1
and stereo music would be upmixed to 5.1 or 2.1 (.1 being LFE and the other 3 channels maybe something similar to old functionality we had on Xbox, Stereo to all speakers). All being optional to user of course.
I also listen to multi channel music, like SACD rips or QUAD Vinyl recordings. they too would be upmixed from eg 44.1, 48, 88.2Khz to 96 if they aren't already.
@pike - on my receiver it's ~0.5 - 1.0 seconds, so the switching time's definitely equipment-dependent. Regarding options gnif's intent is to have the tweaks available in advancedsettings.xml, including the audiophile switch. I'd expect releases would have the smoothest/simplest settings as default.
I too have many SACD rips (and DVD-A) and have to use Foobar for them. There's an awesome open-source decoder in SourceForge for Foobar which can open the raw ISO's and convert DSD to PCM at multiple sample rates, and even supports tagging and replaygain metadata. Perhaps we can talk to it's developer and get SACD in AE in the future.
With regards to the upmixing and upsampling - this is gnif's baby (and what a baby!) so he'd have to address that.
I can say that in just a few conversations with him he's one heck of a smart cookie - i think his brain processes the real world in ++