Problems going to 24 bit

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Windows Media Player doesn't like my 24-bit .wav files. When I try to play them it wants me to download some codec but there's always a problem downloading it.

I'm also fighting a battle with my Aark24 card in the Sounds and Audio settings in the control panel. I've connected my speakers to the Aark's output ports 7 & 8. After restarting the PC the default playback and recording devices are reset to the SB card and only the Aark's 1 & 2 ports are listed (s/b all ports thru 7 & 8).

It seems like going 24-bit is something of a change in religion for my PC (WinXP). Is this a common experience? Is there an easy way to get there?
 
moskus said:
Media Player 9 does... ;)
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Downloading it now...

Do you know if the 9 Series codecs would do the trick just as well? I have WMP 8.
 
EddieRay said:
Do you know if the 9 Series codecs would do the trick just as well? I have WMP 8.
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As far as I know it has nothing to do with codecs. It's just that WMP earlier than 9 wasn't able to recognize a 24 bit file...
 
moskus said:
As far as I know it has nothing to do with codecs. It's just that WMP earlier than 9 wasn't able to recognize a 24 bit file...
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I just spent the last 30 mins installing and testing WMP9 and it still wants to download codecs and the download still errors out. I tried first the Series 9 codecs alone, then WMP9, then reinstalling the codecs. Even re-exported a Cakewalk file to .wav. No success.

This is a show-stopper for me because I use WMP to test and burn my stuff to CD. I'm a late-comer to digital recording: how mature is 24-bit audio technology?
 
Hmmm.... at least I thought WMP9 supported 24-bit. Do you have an external editor such as Wavelab or SoundForge that supports 24-bit? If not, you can download Audacity. It's free and supports 24-bit files. :)

24-bit has been around for quite some time, but it's not normal for "low-end" programs to support it. I mean, SACD and DVD-A aren't really in the game yet.

And if you want to burn a 24-bit file to an Audio CD, you need to dither it down to 16-bit first...
 
I'll give Audacity a try. WinAmp 3 has no problem with them but I can't burn 'em. And whaddya mean I can't create 24-bit audio CDs? I didn't think that would be a problem. In fact, I thought I found it in a thread here somewhere.

Is working in 24-bit and dithering to 16 for audio CDs the common practice?
 
EddieRay said:
And whaddya mean I can't create 24-bit audio CDs? I didn't think that would be a problem.
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CDs are "per definition" 16-bit. There's no way you can change that (unless you have a DVD-burner and can burn DVD-Audio).

That's just the way it is.
 
moskus said:
CDs are "per definition" 16-bit.
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In addition to the bit rate.. if you want to write a wav file out as an audio track on a CD, it also needs to be 44.1 kHz sample rate!!

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