[Vorbis] ogg123 playing 24bit flac

Martin Leese martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org
Wed Apr 20 15:58:15 UTC 2016


Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Recently I made some recordings (44.1kH/24bit WAV), and after
> post-processing (normalization, noide reduction) I saved them as flac (still
> 44.1kHz/24bit).
> I noticed that ogg123 can decode these, but it will output 24 bit only.
> Specifically there's no option to transform the output to 16bit.
> When trying to pipe the 24bit WAV output of ogg123 into aplay, aplay refused
> to accept the 24 bit stream. 8-(
>
> Wouldn't an option to reduce the number of bits in the output be useful?
>
> (For some obsucre reason ogg123 does not produce audible output on openSUSE
> 13.2 with GNOME (I tried different output options), while aplay does)

As this is a problem with Ogg123 playing
FLAC files, you will probably have more luck
posting to the Flac list; visit:
    http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac

Regards,
Martin
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