HifiBerry DAC2 Pro

[scotsmist]

Hi, I'm wondering why my DAC is decoding all my mp3s to 24bit ? flac's are decoding correctly afaik, the dac supports 16bit

   

thanks

(I'm using the dac+pro driver)

[Tim Curtis]

IIRC the codec MPD uses to decode mp3 format always outputs 24 bit.

[scotsmist]

Hi Tim, thanks for your speedy reply. I've been searching the site, other sites and google but could not find that information out. Where would I get such info - is it on the mpd site for example. Cheers and thank you for an excellent product and support.

[Tim Curtis]

Try search libmad codec
https://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

You can also examine the sources
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/files/

I think it actually outputs 28-bit/44.1 of which 24-bits are used by MPD. Something like that.

[scotsmist]

Nice one...

[CallMeMike]

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