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IOVH:
Hi all,

would it be possible to add full-scale SoX resampling options just like in Foobar?




That is pretty much the only thing JRiver is missing over Foobar (and that's why I am 'forced' to use Foobar as of now for audiophile listening). I have been waiting for JRiver to implement something like this for quite some time... and therefore hope you can get it done sometime in the future!



Thank you very much in advance for your consideration!  :)

Ninouchka:
I always try to stay out of topics like this... but audiophile listening with upsampling??

I speak for all the musicians, composers, mixing engineers (post and pre) etc, like I am.
We create music and deliver good quality mediums. 44.1 kHz 16 bit for normal CD's as the medium cannot go higher.
Why up/down sampling this I don't get. EQing I do get, as everybody's amp and speakers sound different. Pro Studio's tend to
over compress the music is past time (I hope so..), and deliver a flat sound of the mix. So if you want
to hear it at home, as we heard and created it for you, buy a good audio system that doesn't color the sound and play the music flat.
If you don't like that, use EQ to pump up that bass.. whatever you like.
But upsampling won't make anything better, you are just destroying our creations lol
Like mp3s, creating a music CD mp3 album of around 100 MB, that we barely could fit on a 740 MB medium. . .
Or was it created only to make a download easier from the internet or to put more on our Hard Disks.
The sad thing is that most people don't even hear the difference between the mp3 or Flac or Wav audio files.
Studios that create modern music, rarely go over 12000 Hz with the mix, as most of listeners don't hear higher frequencies.
This is a fact.
You can't even EQ those higher frequencies, by putting the dB slider up. What isn't there, can't be added. Simple.
Classical music is totally different, higher harmonies etc, just put the orchestra in a nice audiophile room
and record it straight to pure audio bluray, dsd whatever you want..easyyy.. but even that, some guys want to resample ??

Oh yes, I had to stay on topic... lol
I will try Sox,  I feel  so  sad.

JimH:
Ninouchka,
Brilliant post.  Thank you.

Jim

kr4:

--- Quote from: Ninouchka on September 26, 2016, 05:56:41 pm ---But upsampling won't make anything better, you are just destroying our creations lol
--- End quote ---
I am not an advocate of upsampling but I do not believe it is destructive.

thecrow:

--- Quote from: Ninouchka on September 26, 2016, 05:56:41 pm ---I speak for all the musicians, composers, mixing engineers (post and pre) etc, like I am.

--- End quote ---

Sorry mate you do not speak for me.
I have worked on the technical side in top end studios in London for the past 30 years.
But I do not live in a perfect world and there is no such thing as a perfect DAC.
In order to improve the accuracy of digital to analogue conversions designers have been up-sampling digital audio within their DACs for years.
I think SoX is just another way of trying to improve the digital conversion process and I would certainly not dismiss its results.

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