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Topic: AIFF Files & Foobar, (B&W's 'Society of Sound' now only providing AIFF) (Read 965 times) previous topic - next topic
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AIFF Files & Foobar, (B&W's 'Society of Sound' now only providing AIFF)

B&W's 'Society of Sound' is now only providing AIFF files & not FLAC as previous.
Having just back to them, it is possibly relevant that I copy/paste the latest to them.
"It is only today that I actually tried to play them as a complete series from a particular album.
Previously I could select all the tracks & 'dump' them into Foobar, ie, "Play in Foobar 2000" or "Enque in Foobar 2000".
With the IAFF files, it does not give this 'option, (can only select "Play") & if a 'group' of tracks selected will do strange things such a briefly playing a track & then going to the next & continuing in similar fashion.
It WILL play the whole track if only ONE track selected, (but this is obviously quite useless, particularly if wishing to listen to the 'Verdi Requiem').
I do not expect you to be the expert on AIFF & Foobar 2000, but perhaps you can check with 'others' as to the problems I relate, as to not be able to 'effectively' use the 'Society of Sound' music would be disappointing."

I think this shows the actual problem, but to mention that when I enquired initially, they indicated that I should have no trouble with the 'new' AIFF files.
So, I guess basically to ask if you agree that AIFF should be no trouble using Foobar 2000, ( I just updated just in case it made a difference). And particularly as to my findings as provided to B&W as above, can you assist me.
Regards & Thanks,
John Haines

Re: AIFF Files & Foobar, (B&W's 'Society of Sound' now only providing AIFF)

Reply #1 –
Hi John.

I just tried several 5.1 and stereo AIFF files in fb2k and they seem to be working fine on my end.
Therefore, I suspect there might be something "special" to those B&W files.

Could you please use MediaInfo to analyse any of those files and post back the result ?
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

One of my 5.1 files for example  looks like this:
Code: [Select]
General 
Complete name : E:\_Encoding_\51MIX_out.aif 
Format : AIFF 
Format/Info : Apple/SGI 
File size : 61.0 MiB 
Duration : 1 min 14 s 
Overall bit rate mode : Constant 
Overall bit rate : 6 912 kb/s 

Audio 
Format : PCM 
Format settings, Endianness : Big 
Duration : 1 min 14 s 
Bit rate mode : Constant 
Bit rate : 6 912 kb/s 
Channel(s) : 6 channels 
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz 
Bit depth : 24 bits 
Stream size : 61.0 MiB (100%)
Cheers!
Maggi