[LAD] Re: [LAA] [ANN] New AlsaPlayer releases

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:04PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:

> AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries
> to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very
> interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players.

While it's a nice player, it has some serious audio quality
issues.

- Resampling 44.1 -> 48 kHz (for jack) sounds horrible...

- The sndfile input plugin reduces everything to 16 bits.
  This is really absurd, even if your files and your
  sound card are 24 bit you only get 16. 
  Floating point wav files apparently aren't read at all
  (they load but produce silence when played).

All of this could be solved by using a good resampler
lib, and making the internal format floating point 
rather than short.

-- 
FA

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