[flac-dev] Support for ultra-high sample rates?

[Con Kolivas]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 00:37, Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Op do 25 jun. 2020 om 16:02 schreef Con Kolivas <kernel at kolivas.org>:
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>> The idea is to actually use it for playback, not just storage, and
>> nothing else has the nice asymmetrical fast decompression with such
>> effective compression (wavpack supports 705/768 but is woefully slow
>> on decompression and poorly supported). Mostly the sample rates would
>> be multiples of the common 44.1/48 sample rates so I expect
>> compression to be equally good with simple extrapolation to bigger
>> equivalent sized windows.
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> In what setting are you thinking about playback? If this is a lab setting, creating a small batch script to fetch the samplerate tag and passing it to a playback program like ffplay doesn't seem a very big deal? If you want playback on current existing, available hardware, augmenting the spec is not going to work.

Definitely not a lab setting I'm afraid, I'm just experimenting at
home with my regular hi-fi gear. I'm just using clementine and roon
for playback and both load libFLAC so I guess I could create a custom
flac library to support a bastardised flac container.

Thanks,
Con