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Have recently uploaded foobar (recently updated this month) and was amazed that it beats jRiver 19 for wav files. But I am having trouble getting foobar to play dsd files. Apparently you need to d/l a few files (an asio proxy and a sacd input file). I can get the sacd input file to load but not the asio proxy file. Anybody deal with this? Appreciate any feedback.
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Hi,
I have F2K with the DSD bits installed. There is a set of instructions here:
http://ifi-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/data/DoPInstructions_Foobar.pdf
While these reference a specific DAC, the Foobar part applies in general.
You need to select the DSD transmission method (DoP or Native) according to your DAC's capabilities.
Ciao T
At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to untolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?
Thanks finally got it.
Was of no interest to me, but looks like he was successful in doing what you're asking about. No details about setting up though - may be makes sense to ping or email him.
Edits: 10/14/14
Adding confirmation to your comment (and some more details of my experience that might be of interest to the OP and others)...
A year or so ago I was able to get Foobar2000 to play DSD files across USB to my Mytek DAC using a Windows 7 64 bit (Acer) tower machine. As I recall it was necessary to install the suggested components. I had enough speed in my machine that I didn't have to do any further tweaking to get it to play glitch free.
One thing that I noticed at the time with Foobar software was clicks when attempting to play gapless across tracks. These were at a fairly low level, and annoying only when my volume control was cranked all the way up to handle orchestral music with huge dynamics, so might not be noticeable with other musical genres. This may have been fixed in the intervening year and is really no more annoying than some thumps on LP needle drops. At the time there were worse noise problems with the Mytek DAC when switching modes (PCM, DSD64 and DSD128). These were fixed (eventually) by a combination of new firmware and drivers. These problems arose regardless of whether the DSD player application was Foobar or HQPlayer.
I don't see any reason why a machine that can play 176/24 without glitches couldn't also play DSD64, but their might be problems with DSD128. Even though the machine has enough power to run with a low level of CPU utilization (less than 5 percent), there may still be potential problems if the DPC latency is high. Also, even if the DPC latency is moderate there can be problems if buffer sizes have been set small. Unfortunately, setting buffer sizes large to avoid glitches is likely to lower sound quality.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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