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Emulating older CDP with MPEG Audio Decoder

I don't think a MAD plugin already exists for foobar so I'll ask this,

I'm after a music player that is strictly fixed point front-to-back in order to emulate the process Philips employed for getting 16bit performance out of a 14bit mulitbit.
However instead of 14bit, I want to experiment with 8bit (which is not far from vinyl hifi performance regarding SNR).
Essentially I want to emulate vinyl sound.

I did research and found a fixed point decoder MPEG audio decoder (MAD)

CoolPlayer is an option but no re-sampling or dither plugins are available for it.

I also found MAD plugin for winamp, I'm sure to achieve "8bits", the plugin upsamples x64 and dithers down for clean 8bit out - though it would be nice to know what it's going on internally and use a better resampler (noticed sox is also mad based).

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Emulating older CDP with MPEG Audio Decoder

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You can already set the player to output at 8 bits per sample for all formats, from Preferences -> Playback -> Output. Dithering is optional.