On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:46:04PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 20/02/12 01:59, Rob Owens wrote: > >I've got some flac files that are at high sample rates (96000 Hz and > >192000 Hz). My Sansa Clip+ won't play them. When I encode them to ogg > >vorbis, the Clip+ still won't play them unless I resample them. I > >resampled to 44100 Hz and that worked, but I don't know if the actual > >limit is higher than that. > > Are you running regular Sansa firmware? It might be worth seeing whether > <http://rockbox.org/> will handle the higher sample rates. You can > normally safely install rockbox alongside your existing firmware, > and use either. > > (even if it *can*, there's a possibility that it will be > downsampling at play-time, depending on whether the hardware chip > can handle the > sample rate. I'm not sure.) > Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to look into it. Downsampling at play time is no big deal for me, since I'm usually listening to this player in a noisy truck.
> >Would it be a good idea to include this type of information in the > >media-player-info files? Then Rhythmbox, etc. could possibly resample > >my files when I add them to my player. Rhythmbox currently uses the > >media-player-info files to know what formats my player supports, and > >will transcode my music files when I add them to my player, if necessary. > > > >I'm thinking of filing a wishlist bug to media-player-info, but I'd like > >to hear if anyone's got a better suggestion. > > I think it's a great idea, but you should look at discussing this > with upstream first, perhaps on their development list, and then > perhaps file a bug there. The Debian bug is likely superfluous. > Upstream's website has been down for the last few days, but I'll keep checking back. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120222012146.ga6...@aurora.owens.net
