Or use your ears, and decide for yourself if you are able to hear differences, and then decide on the best approach for you and your equipment and circumstances. (you can then be confident that MusicBee will output a bit-perfect signal)Ģ. So my advice to anyone that has some feelings of insecurity about the matter of up-sampling (in relation to listening and enjoying music, which is what any music player such as MusicBee is intended for):ġ. The only relevant indication on that (to me) would be reproducible blind tests.Īnd that seems to be a very big problem when it concerns up-sampling.Įven a sensible notion such as that up-sampling would best be done in factors of natural numbers is sometimes disputed by some people with solid technical backgrounds who say it really doesn't make any discernible difference. If we are stuck with BASS resampler hopefully one of those days somebody will care enough to do some instrument tests or maybe people more knowledgeable about the BASS resampler can provide some information. I couldn't hear any difference at 96kHz which also has interpolation, but maybe interpolation works better at 96kHz. The general consensus seems to be that it is best to upsample with an integer factor of 2 or 4. As for your hearing tests, among many factors that can contribute to this maybe it is possible that you have heard sound degradation because you were upsampling from 44.1 to 48kHz. SOX comes to mind since somebody already did a plugin for it and it is highly regarded resampler for quality when configured that way. So a solution would be to allow sampling plugins as you suggested or maybe include a high quality resampler as an option in the settings.
Xrecode resampler windows 10#
It is very likely that it is good enough as I highly doubt that it can be worse quality than the one Windows 10 uses, and that has already been instrument tested couple of times and shown to be good enough. I tried to find tests of the BASS resampler that somebody might have done, but I couldn't find any. I agree, it would be nice to have some indication as to the quality of the resampler used. Theoretically if the resampler is "good enough" and not actually bad (some examples here of both ) there could actually be a potential benefits with the filter used when upsampling. I tested it with many different sound files.
Xrecode resampler pro#
I use AKG K712 Pro headphones together with RME Babyface and an external O2 headphone amp. I just did a bit of A/B comparison between 44.1 kHz file with and without being upsampled to 96 kHz and I can't hear a difference.
Xrecode resampler driver#
Since you said you use RME I assume you use ASIO driver for the output, but can you confirm that this is what you use when you do the comparison. Can you provide a little more detail about the source material that you use to compare and what sample rate do you use to upsample to. You said you can definitely hear a difference. It looks to be a popular audio engine, likely with a quality resampler, but somebody created a resample library on GitHub specifically to be used with BASS, so many not. Hiccup replied in the other thread that I posted stating that likely BASS's built-in resampler is the one used by MusicBee.
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