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hablushnex:
hi im planning to buy a sansa zip and rockbox it.
i was wondering if rockbox supports HDCD encoding in FLAC and WAVPACK files, and if it supports different bit rates like 24B/96 and such
thanks

saratoga:
No you'd have to decode the hdcd part before converting to flax.

Rockbox doesn't run on any hardware that can do more then 16 effective bits, and 96 k is s huge waste of battery. For best results you should decode hdcd to 20 bit pcm and then dither down to 16 bit for Rockbox.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: saratoga on October 22, 2013, 11:44:39 AM ---Rockbox doesn't run on any hardware that can do more then 16 effective bits

--- End quote ---

That's not entirely true, the Hifiman players can all do 24bit playback as far as I'm aware, as well as some Android devices (Galaxy Note 3 is one example and it does 24/192, the Galaxy Player can do 24/96 iirc), but like you said this is largely irrelevant where Rockbox is concerned as all it is going to do (without a rather serious reshuffle in the core) is waste battery when it truncates everything to 16bit.


[Saint]

saratoga:
Lots of devices will take a 24 bit sample, but I don't think I've ever seen an mp3 player that outputs anything but noise in the 17 the bit.  Hence I don't think we have anything that can do greater than 16 effective bits. Most quality portable devices seem to do 14 or 15 bits into typical headphones.

hablushnex:
so what is the simplest way to convert an HDCD file to 16 bit FLAC?

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