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Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

My file server, to be stored in a different room (getting rid of the noise) will run OpenSolaris with ZFS or maybe Linux with btrfs.

It is tempting to virtualize away the MS-Windows box which will essentially only run fb2k (which could be put in the same closet, drilling a hole in the wall for monitor and keyboard/mouse cables), but I do not want to sacrifice bit-perfect 44.1/16 output.

Assuming the host OS is capable of delivering such: how will a wine'd or virtualbox'ed fb2k do?
 

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #1 –
wine'd foobar2000 will do fine, but due to a limitation of wine itself, it will be limited to playing back 44100Hz 16-bit sample data, or whatever you have configured as your wine DirectSound default. Anything else will be resampled using the nearest neighbor algorithm, which will sound like crap. Easily solved by adding a resampler to the DSP chain. (This is better than 5 years ago, when the sound output would be resampled to 22050Hz 8-bit. wine dev is still waiting on someone to rewrite their DirectSound layer to be more like Vista/7, which would probably be simpler to design around than the current mess anyway. lol FOSS.)

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: kode54 on
limited to playing back 44100Hz 16-bit sample data, or whatever you have configured as your wine DirectSound default.


And 24bits files would be simply truncated to 16? (I guess I can live with that.)

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #3 –
Assuming that wine doesn't actually support setting the default primary buffer format to 24 bits. I know the configuration program only allows for various discrete sample rates up to 48KHz and 8 or 16 bits per sample, but maybe wine itself supports more by editing the configuration or registry or whatever.

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #4 –
If you are willing to use a USB sound card/DAC you could just use USB pass-through to the Windows VM.  That should give you bitperfect output assuming the device supports it.

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: washu on
If you are willing to use a USB sound card/DAC you could just use USB pass-through to the Windows VM.  That should give you bitperfect output assuming the device supports it.


Nowadays I just a a USB-to-SPDIF(coax) converter yes. ASIO4ALL gives bit-perfect out to this device. And Virtualbox or VMWare Player will let that pass through you say? (I am a total n00b on this, sorry ...)

Q: Bit-perfect output with Wine or virtual machine?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Porcus on
Nowadays I just a a USB-to-SPDIF(coax) converter yes. ASIO4ALL gives bit-perfect out to this device. And Virtualbox or VMWare Player will let that pass through you say? (I am a total n00b on this, sorry ...)


I can't comment on VMWare, but it works fine in Virtualbox.  The only "catch" is that you need the full version (still free) and not the Open Source Edition.

Once you add your USB converter it should show up in your virtual Windows box as if you plugged it into a real machine.  You can then install the drivers and use it as normal.