Linn Records has pointed out to me that FLAC doesn't appear to support 88.2 KHz sample rate. This is commentary based on the FLAC help files.
> - A flac file is split up into an arbitrary number of frames. Each > frame has sufficient information in the header to allow a decoder to > decode from that point forward. Because these frame headers are > relatively common, flac decided for space efficiency to encode the > common sample rates (from its perspective :) into 4 bits -- giving us > the eight options from above: 8/16/22.05/24/32/44.1/48/96 kHz. There > are a number of other reserved bits and indicators in that 4 bits, > including one which should allow you to retrieve the sample rate > information from the end of each frame. > > - By default, the flac encoder refuses to encode files that will not > conform to the full 'streamable subset'. This is the full reason why > our flac currently refuses to encode our 88.2kHz files. It very much > knows how to, however, if it did so, it's concerned that they will not > be part of the 'streamable subset'. The '--lax' option overrides this > allowing us to encode the files. -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32951 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
