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Windows 7 audio, bit perfect?

post #1 of 7
4/18/11 at 12:43pm
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I've been trying to get windows media player to work with FLAC files for input, and a bit perfect output codec like ASIO.  I managed to get FLAC working but the output is giving me trouble.  I've heard that Windows 7 no longer uses kmixer, so is it ok to just use the standard output from media player?  I know there are other players like J River, and MediaMonkey that support bit perfect output, but I would like to keep everything organized in media center if possible. 

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post #2 of 7
4/18/11 at 1:27pm

The infamous K-mixer is Win XP and you won’t find it in Win7.
However there is of course a mixer in Win 7 (the audio engine).

http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Windows/Win7/Win7Audio.htm

Win7 resamples everything to the settings in the audio panel.
You can set this to the sample rate of the audio you want to play.

 

The audio engine dithers all output. By design it is not bit perfect.
Dither on 16 bits audio might be audible, dither on 24 bits not.

Best thing you can do is trying an media player like J River supporting WASAPI, ASIO and DS (the one WMC is using).
If you don’t hear a difference between these drivers stop bothering and stick to WMC

 

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post #3 of 7
4/18/11 at 1:43pm

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Edited by mekarls - 4/24/11 at 12:06am
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post #4 of 7
4/18/11 at 2:15pm

I use foobar with WASAPI  , the WASAPI plug-in does give a more natural sound.

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post #5 of 7
4/19/11 at 9:41am
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Fooling around with J River media center and it seems pretty nice.  I may just buy that if it can do everything that WMC can.  I still find it amazing that Microsoft's media software won't support their own codec. 

 

Oh well.

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post #6 of 7
4/19/11 at 9:42am
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Oh, and I do think it sounds better using WASAPI.  It's not a huge difference, but noticeable.

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post #7 of 7
4/19/11 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by WallyWest View Post

It's not a huge difference, but noticeable.


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