Music Player Daemon (MPD) 2009-10-01 Re-Release

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Hi Alan,

Thanks very much for your efforts.

Just out of curiosity, I was going over your code in smp86xx_plugin.c and came across this piece:

Code:

    case 24:
        /*
         * The Sigma platform will do 24-bit just fine, however
         * it expects packed samples and MPD delivers the samples
         * signed extended to 32-bit.  I understand why it is
         * delivered this way due to dword alignment, however IMO
         * MPD is broken in calling this a 'true 24-bit' format.
         * So I'm falling through to forcing 16-bit output below
         * where packing naturally equals alignment
         */
    default:
        audio_format->bits = 16;
        break; // override

Please pardon my naive question, but does this mean that the output plug in will throw away the most significant (or is it the least significant) 8 bits of a 24-bit sample?

Thanks