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Hi all, I just noticed this: https://sourceforge.net/p/flac/feature-requests/91/ a request for support of 32 bit audio data. The request has been around since 2008. Had two inial impressions: * Would adding this break brackwards compatibility too badly? Obviously decoding of 32 bit encoded data would not work with older versions of flac. * This is nuts. 24 bits has a dynamic range of ~140dB which is roughly the difference between a quiet whisper in a quiet room, to the sound of a jet engine at 10 meters. Surely th...

Op 26-09-15 om 09:22 schreef Erik de Castro Lopo: > Had two inial impressions: > > * Would adding this break brackwards compatibility too badly? Obviously > decoding of 32 bit encoded data would not work with older versions of > flac. Probably not. I know that Josh at some point added a second residual coding method (rice2) to support 24-bit, but that only broke backward compatibility for 24-bit file...