Winamp Wave Out resampler (was- [vorbis] make lo-fi sound as good as RealAudio?

[B.H. Anderson]

Shawn sent me a copy of the non-Direct Sound version of this output plugin, 
and I'm hosting it on my web site's rare software page:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/bhafool1/rarities/

I've found it adds far more smoothness and clarity to various low 
sample-rate audio files, including an 80-minute speech I mentioned 
previously, due to my soundcard's approach to D-to-A conversion which I 
presume introduces aliasing when playing back low sample rate audio (see my 
rarities page for more).

Previously, I'd struggled to explain why my 11.025 kHz sampled version of 
that speech in Vorbis had sounded so rough in the bassy vowel sounds (even 
at quality 10) compared to the original 44.1 kHz Windows Media Audio file, 
when it preserved the full 5.3 kHz frequency range from the original (source 
via tape recording & PA system) and had been carefully downsampled in 
CoolEdit. Now the downmixed 11 kHz Vorbis file at -q -0.6 is a fraction of 
the size of the "default setting" WMA source and sounds just as good, and 
the 8 kHz -q -1.0 is 10 kbps and not far behind.

Regards,

BHA

>From: Shawn Riley <roleypup at samford.net>
>Reply-To: vorbis at xiph.org
>To: vorbis at xiph.org
>Subject: Re[2]: Winamp Wave Out resampler (was- [vorbis] make lo-fi  sound  
>as  good as RealAudio?
>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:46:38
>
>Egor said-
>
> >Peter's webpage 'is dead', but files are still there:
> >        http://www.blorp.com/~peter/zips/out_ds.exe
> >filesize is 95kb.
> >
> >It's two DirectSound output plugins. (Of course, DS-compatible sound
> >card drivers are required.)
>
>The ones I downloaded have the options to send to any sound device, or to 
>the Microsoft sound mapper.
>
>- Shawn
>
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