[linux-audio-user] resampling question

[Anahata]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:51:07PM +0300, Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:
> Hi. If I want to resample from 96khz to 48khz, what would give the best
> result: use libsamplerate, or just drop off odd (or even) samples?
> 
> I guess the libsamplerate and any of its interpolations would cause some
> digital garbage anyway, or are they intellectual enough to detect that the
> rate is halved and just perform a drop off?

Dropping samples will give you far worse results than proper interpolation.
Those dropped samples contain useful information, to put it simply.

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