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I have allways encoded my music to MP3, now I want to move, to encode my music in FLAC.

I have one qustion when I use the encoder in MC, I see the bit depth is 16, is this OK,
or should it be 24 bit.

Does it have any effect on the encoded music.

Thanks.....

[tcman41]

24-bit  digital audio has a theoretical maximum dynamic range of 144 dB, compared to 96 dB for 16-bit; however, current digital audio converter technology is limited to dynamic ranges of about 120 dB (20-bit) because of 'real world' limitations in integrated circuit design.

Also if you are going to encode your music to 24bit than you need hardware that can play 24bit music.

TC

[Matt]

If you rip a CD, it's 16-bit.  There would be no reason to store the data in any format other than the 'native' format (44.1 KHz x 16 bit x 2 channel).

Media Center can output at any bit depth during playback time, but this is a slightly different topic.  This is worth doing because the added precision is valuable if you perform any DSP.