ASIO + Foobar + 24/96 audio != work

Jan 11, 2008 at 9:17 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 10

`danny

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I recently have gotten into foobar and I had it setup to use ASIO for playback. All my music was in 44.1khz/16bit and I had no problems. I recently obtained a 24bit/96khz copy of Dark Side of the Moon in flac form and for some reason it will not play one bit. It will play in VLC but not in foobar with ASIO enabled. Is there something I can do to fix this? I don't want to resample the 24bit/96khz down to 16bit/44.1khz because that would ruin the fun
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Thanks for the help,

Dan
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 12:50 AM Post #3 of 10
um...is it encoded in DTS? Cos if it is, then I don't think Foobar supports it. Maybe there is a plugin you can look for.

Besides if it works on VLC why exactly do you want it to work on Foobar? Any specific reason?
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 8:30 AM Post #5 of 10
It just wont play. It's a plain jane flac file and not .dts or anything else. I have my spdif installed already with ASIO4ALL and I can play 16bit/44.1 or 48khz through foobar with ASIO enabled without a problem. I am at a loss on what is going on with it

Also my hardware is in my sig in case you guys are wondering how my setup is configured.
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 8:46 AM Post #6 of 10
Does the MicroDAC even handle 24-bits at 96 KHz?

I tried playing an unsupported sample rate (88.2 KHz) with my UA-1EX and I got an error message from Foobar that the ASIO device wouldn't handle it. I switched the UA-1EX to 96 KHz and enabled the upsampler in Foobar and it worked.

The UA-1EX uses the Edirol driver in Windows which explicitly supports ASIO. Maybe the motherboard sound driver doesn't support ASIO very well?
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 8:48 AM Post #7 of 10
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Originally Posted by `danny /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I have my spdif installed already with ASIO4ALL and I can play 16bit/44.1 or 48khz through foobar with ASIO enabled without a problem.


ASIO4ALL is *NOT* true ASIO, and you can't play 24/96 files through ASIO4ALL. I tried without success in the past, and the ASIO4ALL website seems to imply it's 24/96 capable, but when I directly asked, I got no replay from the author.

Your best bet is to use a soundcard that has its own native ASIO driver and skip ASIO4ALL.
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 8:48 AM Post #8 of 10
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Does the MicroDAC even handle 24-bit/96 KHz?

I tried playing an unsupported sample rate (88.2 KHz) with my UA-1EX and I got an error message from Foobar that the ASIO device wouldn't handle it. I switched the UA-1EX to 96 KHz and enabled the upsampler in Foobar and it worked.



I had it use just the spdif output under the playback options and it plays flawlessly.
 
Jan 12, 2008 at 8:51 AM Post #9 of 10
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Originally Posted by Jon L /img/forum/go_quote.gif
ASIO4ALL is *NOT* true ASIO, and you can't play 24/96 files through ASIO4ALL. I tried without success in the past, and the ASIO4ALL website seems to imply it's 24/96 capable, but when I directly asked, I got no replay from the author.

Your best bet is to use a soundcard that has its own native ASIO driver and skip ASIO4ALL.



Ok thanks for the help
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Jan 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM Post #10 of 10
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Originally Posted by Jon L /img/forum/go_quote.gif
ASIO4ALL is *NOT* true ASIO, and you can't play 24/96 files through ASIO4ALL. I tried without success in the past, and the ASIO4ALL website seems to imply it's 24/96 capable, but when I directly asked, I got no replay from the author.

Your best bet is to use a soundcard that has its own native ASIO driver and skip ASIO4ALL.



Beside getting a soundcard with native ASIO driver is there any other way? Because I am playing my file from my macbook pro.
 

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