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In Reply to: DLL Hell posted by jbmcb on August 24, 2006 at 14:11:50:
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There are in fact some valid, and very specific, cases where it is *not* nonsense. It's easy to dismiss something when you don't fully understand the complexities of a modern operating system (and dare i say possibly not very well written? :-))
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Christine,COuld one of these cases be when playing lossless files such as FLAC?
And could this account for some accounts of hearing a difference between .wavs and FLAC files?
At one stage, I was encountering crackling when playing back 192kHz 24 bit audio files compressed using Microsoft WMA Lossless.I kept thinking it must be a buffering problem, or a network latency issue (because these files were served off a NAS), then one day I realised the obvious ...
The CPU I was using was simply not powerful enough to decompress WMA Lossless at 192kHz fast enough.
I converted all the files to a less CPU intensive algorithm (Wavpack seemed to be the most CPU efficient, based on casual benchmarking) and suddenly everything was fine! :-)
Another reason for possible differences between WAV and lossless compressed files may be the extra CPU power required to do the decompression is injecting noise into the audio circuits (in the form of power supply fluctuations, or EMI).
Thanks.This makes my choice to rip everything to .wavs seem like a good one.
Since my cpu is pretty slow, it also seems like a good choice.
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