[LAU] Best-quality command-line float32-to-16-bit conversion?

Fons Adriaensen fons at kokkinizita.net
Fri Apr 23 20:58:03 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31:38PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:

>   I have Ecasound, sndfile-convert and sox. But from these three I
> deem sndfile-convert to be the best. but I seem to remember, that
> Fons Adriaensen recently released a tool/library to do the same
> task. I believe it is as good as or better than sndfile-convert. I
> seem to recall, that there were issues with finetuning dithering,
> that sndfile didn't offer. As I said, I'm not 100% syure about that.

That is the 'resample' application, part of the source distribution
of zita-resampler. For 16-bit output it offers rectangular, 
triangular or Lipschitz noise shaped dithering.

Ciao,

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