oversampling cannot add any more useful information to a signal, at best it can add as little audible noise as possible.
whatever is processing the signal afterwards is probably using a float representation internally. by resampling you are just giving it a noisier signal to start with. resampling with a higher sample rate will increase the size of the FLAC file because it adds noise that is impossible to compress. resampling by increasing the sample resolution (e.g. 16 to 24 bits) will not increase the size of the FLAC file only if all samples are shifted to the left and filled in with zeroes; FLAC can detect this condition. but this will add more audible noise than with the common method of resolution conversion, which will dither the lower bits, adding (less audible) noise that FLAC cannot compress and hence making the file larger. -- Josh Coalson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Josh Coalson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34597 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
