I use this asio plugin for foobar because my USB DAC headphone amp needs it, otherwise no sound.

If I understood it correctly, as in some of the new Japanese pressings reissue as 24bit whatever, that would mean they remaster the original tapes into 24bit digital masters and then transfer them to 16bit CD format. If they were to do a 1 to 1 bit mapping and churn out 24bit CDs, then I would think there is a high chance Tom Jones will sound like Diana Krall, and jazz becomes classical.

Normal CD players process 16 bit audio. But that does not mean foobar2000 cannot output 24bit audio. It can, but the source will be from 24 bits recordings, not from music CDs but from midi devices or your own remixing that captures the output file as 24bit.

Correct me if I am wrong on this.

As to why some CDs sound a little different from different sources, it has to do with the sound engineer bias in the production process, much like why the same type of chocolate tastes differently in Asia and Europe. There are people with very sweet tooth.

Can be any source, but most CD players accepts 16bit audio disc. Depends on whether the extra bits are stored on the disc. And if it is there, the drive can read them and the player can play them, correctly of course.

I have no idea and I don't even know how the data are assembled in an audio CD. It is like this, if your drive detects you inserted an audio CD, it plays you music, without you even asking.

One of these days, switch over to foobar2000 without them knowing, ask them what they think of WMP11 ....... I know I know..... but just for the fun of it, and they will have their revenge.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=28

The ASIO barang might show up as USB-something in the Output Device column, or as something else that wasn't there before. Before you go any further, do you undertstand what I am trying to say? If there is something there, then select that something and close the window. Then press play, got sound or not?

Let me take one last shot at this. What is the file name of the ASIO thingy in the component directory?

Did you plug in the USB device you want the output from your computer to go to? Must plug in okay, otherwise nothing will show up in the selection column.

This post has been edited by BCurve: Oct 16 2008, 08:13 PM

Of course, allow me to refer you to post #26 on page 2 of this thread.

The suspense is killing me. Now everyone of you, bring out your sampling plugin, so that I can load them all into foobar and drive myself crazy.

Music CDs you buy off the shelf are 16 bits.

Guys, this is foobar2000 Q & A ...... that it easy.

Current version is stable enough after all these years. But, thanks for testing and please report any abnormalities to the developer.

some of my tabs on it include, handphone, burn in, what is this, ......

foobar is more of a management type, no frills kind of software, it speaks for itself. It is strictly business!

Oh, and one more thing, you cannot put back what isn't there in the very first place. Doing that would be lying to yourself. Denial is not healthy.

This post has been edited by BCurve: Oct 24 2008, 10:26 AM

Last time I thought foobar was a kind of chocolate, that you can sample and see how it taste like. If you take the samples slowly, you get to taste it better as it melts in your mouth. But if you sample it like many many thousand times very very fast, you get mouth cramp. Your teeth become so bad that they drop off one by one over night. Then somebody answered my question, told me foobar is computer something something, that it is y2k compliant. I said does that mean reverse order will work, because normally it is a2z. She said no lah no lah, it is a software for playing music files. I thanked her then for questions to my answers. I asked her what is all these sampling going on, are they blood samples, urine samples, stool samples. She also say no. She said those are mostly fluid samples. If you use these samples on the computer, the whole computer can go bang! and you get to see some smoke. I said orrr .......

To see if I can change the topic ........

I been using foobar since 2003, way before v0.9.

A Q&A thread could serve to point users to skins, plugins and resource links specific to the software, among other things related. BUT for topics such as resamplings which is so general and not players specific, it would be beneficial to everybody in this forum to have it discuss in a separate thread. I don't use WMP, but I can see its users benefit(?) from this too. Resampling is not exclusive to foobar.

Half the pages in this thread are devoted to resampling already. Maybe someone can start a new topic, like resampling in foobar and watch that bumped up to 50 pages in no time.

This post has been edited by BCurve: Oct 25 2008, 10:26 AM