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Subject: Re: WAV Codec for Archos

Re: WAV Codec for Archos

From: Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2006-01-24

Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
> Neon John wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid this is wistful thinking and to a great extent, polishing a
>> turd. You're proposing to do surgery with a battleaxe. A WAV Codec
>> will not solve the basic flaws in the JBR that degrade recordings. The
>> major problem is, of course, hard drive whine. It's there regardless
>> of the source of audio.
>
>
> I don't think that applies to all devices, it may differ between Jukebox
> models and production batches.

IIRC, the original poster mentioned that he's using the SPDIF input.

> We're talking about raw PCM here. All the CPU does it flush
> the input PCM stream to disk.

Wasn't there some bandwidth limitation between the MAS and the CPU?

Andreas
Received on Tue Jan 24 12:01:01 2006


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