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In Reply to: The thing is that the Dragonfly Red Does change color posted by oldmkvi on September 16, 2017 at 14:14:56:
I am sorry but I understood your reference to "setting" to refer to the Dragonfly's sample rate which cannot be changed as it is selected automatically.
I now understand you meant the setting in Audio Prefs. I attach a link to the flight manual where they suggest 44.1 is most common. I have the same problem myself with Windows where the audio settings cover both bit depth and sample rate. Whatever is selected means that the incoming data is either upsampled or downsampled unless one has fortuitously hit upon a mirror of each other.
As I am not a Mac user I don't know if a similar thing occurs but I guess so.
This does get complicated. From a Windows point of view in earlier versions of Windows you could hover the cursor over the browser window playing the station and see its properties. But this would be the incomimg programme data rate which for lossy stations is what the codec is using e.g 192Kb/s.
I don't think that there is a way of finding out what the internet station's player is sending to the DAC via Mac audio preferences except by what the DAC tells you ( which will presumably be what rate is set in audio preferences !).
The solution would be to avoid Mac MIDI audio preferences or Win Audio. In Windows this can be done by using a WASAPI session whereby the incoming data is passed through bit perfect. The downside is that I haven't come across any web based (in browser) player that caters for this. I also have never heard of a similar Mac facility so maybe the MIDI audio preference can be bypassed some other way? I haven't seen inmates complaining about Mac up/downsampling when not required.
I think that you may have to accept that internet radio is normally configured to be easily usable by everyone and that what we may think of as useful or essential information is just not catered for. I would just set the audio preference to 44.1 as this is likely to cover most of this type of input. If you change it to 48.0 I would be amazed if you can hear a difference anyway.
If you subscribe to a lossless streaming service and use a desktop player then you may be able to see the rate sent ( e.g. Qobuz for us Europeans) or, if the rate is fixed , know what it is from the supplier's promo or instructional material ( e.g. Primephonic).
Sorry but in the end I haven't been much help I am afraid.
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- RE: The thing is that the Dragonfly Red Does change color - PAR 15:29:38 09/16/17 (1)
- RE: The thing is that the Dragonfly Red Does change color - oldmkvi 07:27:53 09/17/17 (0)
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