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Stacking the Peak Meter and VU Meter displays can provide a dramatic view of how much hard limiting is used in a recording... Merry Christmas y'all! Mark Durenberger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] What's the best Windows app for playing 24-bit FLAC files? > Hi Mark: > > Shoulda figured there was some Windows mischief afoot. Indeed, Windows had > de-selected the M-Audio 2496 card as the default audio playback device. So > Foobar was getting mangled garbage via TotalRecorder software (the only > way I know of to "record" (capture) audio off Flash and Real streams). > Since it's not a studio computer, I didn't even think to check until your > post got me poking around in the Windows settings. > > Yep, Foobar works just fine. > > Thanks! > > And, Happy Merry to all ARSCList members. May your 2010 be healthy, happy > and prosperous. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Donahue" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:35 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] What's the best Windows app for playing 24-bit > FLAC files? > > >> Tom, >> I'm wondering if your problem is a simple configuration thing with >> Foobar. I use Foobar here in the studio to play back everything with the >> exception of DSD files. >> I'm wondering if your soundcard has an ASIO driver. If so, then there is >> an ASIO add on for Foobar that will allow the application to control the >> sound card directly, bypassing the dreaded Windows audio control panel. >> I have multichannel 88.2k, 96k and 192k files in my library in both >> Interleaved and Multi-Mono source and the application even gets all the >> channels of the surround files in the right outputs. >> >> All the best, >> Mark Donahue >> Soundmirror, Inc. >> Boston MA >> >