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

[alanh]

(10-01-2009 03:17 PM)6p14pev Wrote:  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?

Well if you are playing a true 24 bit source, then yes, the least significant bits will be dropped. It's a problem with MPD in that it doesn't support packed 24-bit samples. The samples could be packed before being sent by the driver. Decoding mp3 I rarely see top usage spike above 15% (but top can be misleading). So there should be room to do that. I'm also kicking around the idea of using the DMA controller to pack the samples. But I'm not sure when that will happen.

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(10-01-2009 03:37 PM)gcf Wrote:  Thanks for your effort on this.
Can I install this over a previous version, and if not, how do I uninstall the previous version?

To be honest, I haven't really looked at what gwillams packaging was like or how it gets dropped in by CSI. If you used CSI, I would think it has an uninstall feature. Otherwise, you might want to delete or prevent the old MPD from starting and then install the new one. If you are shell savvy, you can also just pull the binaries from this new tar file to replace the old ones and merge the config file changes in with your existing install.

For most people, I think it will be worthwhile to just wait for CSI update.