philippe_44 wrote: 
> A few comments: 
> 
> - your player does not advertise receiving 24 bits samples in "raw"
> format, so it cannot work unless you use truncate
I seemed to have had quite some difficulty in doing accurate testing.
I've only recently discovered that unless I restart LMS, the bridge
settings don't seem to stick. Pretty much renders any testing done prior
this discovery invalid. This led to quite a bit of confusion. The latest
round of testing (shown above) confirms what you say here. 

philippe_44 wrote: 
> - it only accepts 24 bits when packaged in a "wav" file and, as we
> discussed, I suspect it might truncate samples in 16 bits, although it
> displays 24 bits - I've seen a few players that I suspect do that
Yes, does seem to be the case. Maybe so(re truncating), although I have
no real reason to suspect this is happening. The specs for receiver say
it is capable of it and it has a 24bit dac, so I can't imagine why it
would.

philippe_44 wrote: 
> - aac is a poorly supported format by my bridge (it would require a fair
> bit or on-the-fly data re-packaging), quite often it's better to remove
> it from codecs and let LMS transcode
Not a major issue for me, although in the very limited testing I've done
so far it seems to work

philippe_44 wrote: 
> - mp3 does not play because you have disabled mp3 in codecs list, and I
> don't think LMS by default has a rule to decode mp3 to pcm (which makes
> sense b/c all players support mp3 and why would you want to decode it in
> LMS ...)
I guess the only reason would be for replay gain purposes?

philippe_44 wrote: 
> - if levelling is LMS's replay gain, can you tell me how you get the
> gain to be calculated? It's because wav format does not support a
> replaygain information 
Not entirely sure what you're asking here. Replaygain info is in the
ALAC tags. I use foobar2000 to scan them and add the info. My knowledge
of PCM/WAV is somewhat limited. So wav doesn't support support
replaygain data in the tags? Does that really matter if the player
doesn't support replay gain anyway? Couldn't the volume adjustment be
made during conversion from alac to wav/pcm? 

philippe_44 wrote: 
> - the "very slow", there is a problem with LMS, pcm and sample rate
> above 96 kHz where LMS tells the player that sample rate is 44.1
> although it's 192 (e.g.), but I can't remember exactly what happens, I
> have to look into my notes. What is your LMS version? It seems to be
> 7.9.1 but I thought the issue with sample rate above 96KHz was a 7.7.x
> problem
Yes 7.9.1. 

So I guess to summarise where we at with this:

-PCM raw isn't going to work because my player at least doesn't
advertise 24bit

-The following works, but no replaygain
LMS Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain: no volume adjustment
Supported codecs: pcm
PCM format: wav
24 bits PCM: plain 24 bits
Result: 24bit plays and recognised as 24bit, 16 bit plays, mp3 won't
play, AAC plays
Log: https://pastebin.com/B4T9Fz1h

-The following produces really loud distorted audio on 24bit content
LMS Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain: smart gain
Supported codecs: pcm
PCM format: wav
24 bits PCM: plain 24 bits
Result: 24bit plays really loud and distored,recognised as 24bit, 16 bit
plays, mp3 won't play, AAC plays
Log: https://pastebin.com/V6BZjimX

-With replaygain turned on in LMS and the settings above in bridge,
16bit content does seem to have replay gain applied. ie volumes are
levelled between tracks.

Thanks again for your help with this.


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