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48Khz, 24-bit lossless download questions

I have just downloaded a WMA lossless "Studio Master" album from Linn Records.  It is 48Khz, 24-bit, no DRM.  When I right click on a track in Windows explorer it indeed shows 48Khz 24 bit.  But if I enqueue in Foobar and select properties it shows 48Khz, 16 bit.  I also used foobar to converto these tracks to FLAC and again the foobar properties show 48khz, 16 bit.  Is foobar just incorrectly showing the bit depth or am I missing something?

Thanks,
John

48Khz, 24-bit lossless download questions

Reply #1 –
either foobar2000 is downsampling the audio to 16-bit, or something is wrong with the WMA reading code. go to Preferences > Playback > Output and make sure it's set to 24-bit.

if that doesn't work, you could try downloading some WMP tools from Microsoft. i know that there's 1 tool which decodes a WMA file and makes a WAV file.

also, doesn't Linn records allow you to download FLAC files as well?