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feature request

i've just discovered foobar200 and i think it's absolutely wicked! but I have one gripe... i'm a music producer, and i have many different uncompressed file formats which i need to play in a quick and easy way... the files are many different word lengths - 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit floating point...

its really annoying then to have foobar2000 play back all files at a universally locked wordlength... i would love to be able to play back my longer word length files exactly as they are, without truncation or dithering to a lower bitrate...

hopefully this is not a pipedream... having foobar2000 play back files at their exact word length without truncating or dithering to a lower word length would make it the ultimate media player around

feature request

Reply #1 –
Welcome to the forums, but the development forum is not the right place for feature requests. *kindly points at forum descriptions*

Why don't you set the bits-per-sample to the highest value your soundcard supports (in the output section on the Playback preferences page)? Internally, all data is handled as floating point; 8 and 16 bit data will be padded with zeroes for output, so there is no loss of precision there (unless you use DSPs).

feature request

Reply #2 –
Unless your sound card supports something higher then 64 bit FP, foobar already does what you want