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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    where does extreme + i/o fit into this with regard to xdms? does the i/o hardware also solve the gapless/track manipulation "issues"?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    from the dbpoweramp users forum, a response from the moderator: "If you can convert the file with dBpoweramp to WAV, then any program using the standard flac libraries (which is pretty much every audio program, except ffmpeg) will be able read the file." this implies to me that ffmpeg is using...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    i have no idea how flac does it, i just found that wav, by design, puts the lsb, then padding, then msb--so it needs to be reconstructed to create a single sample. but i'm much more intrigued by why two WAV files would be different. if you're interested, here are the detailed media info files.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    and just to be clear, there is no right or wrong answer here. if some hear a big difference and others don't, that is still part of a big clue and we don't know where that will lead since we don't don't know the exact mechanism at play here
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    no, the opposite. somehow ffmpeg is worse sounding, even when done batch offline
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    thanks! i've got additional files at the link back a page or so. now there are flac, wav-db and wav-ff to compare. can you tell us what dac you use and what your dac settings are in xdms? also, which version of xdms are you using?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    good question. personally, i don't think the SQ is embedded in the files but something is 'different' in the WAV file structures. i think there are interactions with other processing functions which could differ from system to system (e.g. usb buffer size). bits really are...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    to avoid clogging up this thread, anyone who wants to contribute should: 1. download tracks in 'temp' folder, put on your extreme local drive, scan, then queue the 'temp' folder into the xdms player. 2. please report your results (flac, wav-db and wav-ff) to me via DM and i'll collate the...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    dave i think you do get the exact bits back, but i can hypothesize that if the bits are packed differently they might be processed and sent on in a different format (possibly)............just winging it here but what if data is split into packets differently? one thing i learned is that the...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    ed heard it clearly in 5-10 seconds on every track. YMMV
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    nope.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    consensus? here?????? let me summarize a bit (even though this is the olympus/wrong thread, right?). ed was kind enough to drop by on monday to meet, talk deep audio techno geek, and listen to my system. this is the music we played...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    thanks for that info. no, i did not know that, and that opens a possible option for me. is roon gapless on playback?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    you say potato, i say............. i feel the same way, but about roon, which i personally find unusable (i prefer folder browsing). i am quite happy with XDMS and only gapless is a critical missing feature for me (and that is coming soon to alpha-land). if xdmi only works with roon, i'm...
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Music Server

    maybe i'm the only one confused, but it seems the discussion here is verging towards the olympus and not the extreme. this is making recommendations, such as roon vs. xdms and local vs. nas, very confusing since they differ for the olympus and the extreme. can i suggest that someone clean up...
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