Re: sample rate of ogg and flac files
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:46:04PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On 20/02/12 01:59, Rob Owens wrote:
> >I've got some flac files that are at high sample rates (96000 Hz and
> >192000 Hz). My Sansa Clip+ won't play them. When I encode them to ogg
> >vorbis, the Clip+ still won't play them unless I resample them. I
> >resampled to 44100 Hz and that worked, but I don't know if the actual
> >limit is higher than that.
>
> Are you running regular Sansa firmware? It might be worth seeing whether
> <http://rockbox.org/> will handle the higher sample rates. You can
> normally safely install rockbox alongside your existing firmware,
> and use either.
>
> (even if it *can*, there's a possibility that it will be
> downsampling at play-time, depending on whether the hardware chip
> can handle the
> sample rate. I'm not sure.)
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to look into it. Downsampling at
play time is no big deal for me, since I'm usually listening to this player
in a noisy truck.
> >Would it be a good idea to include this type of information in the
> >media-player-info files? Then Rhythmbox, etc. could possibly resample
> >my files when I add them to my player. Rhythmbox currently uses the
> >media-player-info files to know what formats my player supports, and
> >will transcode my music files when I add them to my player, if necessary.
> >
> >I'm thinking of filing a wishlist bug to media-player-info, but I'd like
> >to hear if anyone's got a better suggestion.
>
> I think it's a great idea, but you should look at discussing this
> with upstream first, perhaps on their development list, and then
> perhaps file a bug there. The Debian bug is likely superfluous.
>
Upstream's website has been down for the last few days, but I'll keep
checking back.
-Rob
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