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MP3 - General / Re: 320 MP3 VBR to CBR
Last post by Porcus -(Where do you get 320 VBR? The only reason to convert those to CBR would be if some player chokes on it ...)
If you use ASIO why would you need audio drivers for?ASIO doesn't work without drivers. No matter the used API the sound device will need drivers to be usable by the operating system. Some devices use standard interfaces that are supported natively by the OS, like Intel HD Audio or USB Audio Class 1 and 2. Those will allow basic output to work with the built-in drivers. But proper ASIO always needs manufacturer provided drivers. There are also ASIO wrappers that translate ASIO calls to Microsoft's API calls, like to WASAPI or KS. But these are not quite as direct as ASIO allows with proper drivers.
So many builds! So at the end, can anyone recommend a build which should work fine and fast with any CPU made during the past 12 years ?If you don't use vintage windows versions the clang builds of @JoshuaChang don't use fancy CPU extensions or fast-math and are as fast as it gets for that.
everyone can quickly make a test installing the second version of Foobar “portably” – 2 Foobar versions can be run parallelly – which should allow you to quickly switch between them.But that wouldn't reproduce what you claim to be hearing. It should only be necessary to capture the output from the PC (not the output from the speakers)... either electrically, or perhaps simply using Audacity to grab the output. If you aren't up for that, then forget trying to convince the powers-that-be you have a valid point.