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It's a ways off but me and some friends got 4 day passes to the July 2020 Peach Music Festival AKA PeachFest. Can't wait, fist time for some of us going and the rest are regulars. http://thepeachmusicfestival.com

Allen Woody Jerry Garcia, Pigpen, Brent Mydland Duane Allman, Berry Oakley Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison Lennon, Harrison no particular order

The official release is a soundboard and Charlie's torrent is an UltraMatrix (soundboard mixed with Healy's audience mics live at the show). The two sound different, but both sound excellent! The UltraMatrix puts you more realistically at the event, but the official release has greater separation of instruments. The 24bit of Miller's seed is available and seeded at Lossless Legs. I'm currently seeding just incase everyone else bolts. You can join Lossless Legs here https://www.shnflac.net/index.php Here's the page at LL with the torrent https://www.shnflac.net/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=ae99a7ff3ca8d75e77f1f78b964e2dae7dfa87c4 I don't know if that link will work unless you are signed in, but I'm sure you can find the torrent if you join. I'm an admin at LL. If you do decide to join LL, please be kind, and read the rules, no copyrighted material or bands that don't allow torrenting of their music is allowed at the site. My handle is the same as here- Memphiskat (no I'm not from Memphis, long story LOL). Message me at LL if you need help finding the torrent. Everything at Lossless Legs eventually ends up on bt.etree.org so the 24bit might be seeded there now, haven't checked.

Kreutzman, Hart, Bonham, Moon, Peart, Jaimoe all better than those two. My $.02

IRON MAIDEN June 4th, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA I can't wait. I've seen them quite a few times and they never fail to impress. UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!!!

You have always been able to change the sampling rate in audio/midi setup while iTunes is playing and it does indeed change your Mac's output sample rate. But iTunes continued to output at the sample rate that audio/midi was at when itunes started up. So if audio/midi is at 96k when iTunes starts up, iTunes will output at 96k and your Mac will output at 96k. If you then change the audio/midi setting to 44.1k your mac will now output 44.1, but iTunes is locked at 96k. iTunes will output 96k and OSX will resample it to 44.1. If this has changed in Snow Leopard or Lion it's news to me. Karl

The iPod changed everything in music, just like the Walkman did years before. Steve Jobs will be remembered as a vissionary who changed our lives for the better.

Hello So I'm using Windows again after using Macs exclusively for 15 years and need some catching up. I started this adventure after getting the new Grateful Dead Europe '72 Complete Box set and wanting to get the full benefit of the HDCD encoded CDs. After giving up for the time being on getting an HDCD capable DAC I settled on a software solution- HDCD.exe, dbpoweramp, and now Foobar2000. Well, there is no OSX counterpart so I used bootcamp to install Windows XP on my MacBook. Now I'm really out of the loop on using Windows for playing music. So here's what I got and some questions. Windows XP (SP3)on an early '08 MacBook. I am using either an EMU 0404 USB for my home set up or an M-Audio FastTrack Pro USB for portable listening. I downloaded and installed the manufactures drivers for both devices. I have them both working fine. I have installed Foobar2000 and the HDCD Decoder 1.11 component. I found the code to display in Foobar's status bar when HDCD is detected and what components of it are being used. I set output in Foobar to use 0404 or Fastrack Pro and set bit depth to 24bit. Everything appears to be playing fine. KMIXER - My question is since I'm using the drivers from the manufacturer of the devices do I need to do anything to bypass the Kmixer? I can hear computer sounds through the DACs. Not good. So I guess my question is - using Windows XP and Foobar2000 to an outboard DAC what should I look for to make sure I get bitperfect to the DAC? Karl

Tim sent me a new build and it's now working like a charm! It is really nice to have a developer that responds so quickly.

>>Can you try disabling Integer Mode and see if that helps? It is disabled

This morning I tried BitPerfect and it won't work at all. I get an extremely distorted sound from BitPerfect. Sounds like its playing super slow. I unistalled and downloaded again from App Store. Still same problem. I'm using BitPerfect 3.0 with an Emu 0404. 2008 MacBook. BitPerfect will play fine using internal audio for DAC, but is broken with the EMu 0404. The 0404 works fine with iTunes without BitPerfect. I have tried all different settings within BitPerfect, but it just won't play properly with the Emu 0404 as DAC. I'll email the Device Info to [email protected] but here it is. I really like this program, hope I can get this resolved. Name: Built-in Output UID:AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,2:0 Device Id: 265 Default: YES Selected: NO Complex DAC: NO Integer Mode Capable: N/A Frame Buffer Sizes: 14 - 4608 Current Frame Buffer Size: 512 Left Channel: 1 Right Channel: 2 Sample Rates: 44.1 48.0 96.0 Audio Streams: Stream ID: 266 Stream Number: 0 Starting Channel: 1 Total Channels: 2 Total Physical Formats: 9 Physical Format 1: Sample Rate: 96000 Bit Depth: 16 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 4 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 4 Physical Format 2: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 16 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 4 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 4 Physical Format 3: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 16 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 4 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 4 Physical Format 4: Sample Rate: 96000 Bit Depth: 20 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 Physical Format 5: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 20 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 Physical Format 6: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 20 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 Physical Format 7: Sample Rate: 96000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 Physical Format 8: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 Physical Format 9: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 8 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 8 ---------------------- Name: E-MU 0404 | USB UID:EMUUSBAudioEngine:E-MU Systems, Inc.:E-MU 0404 | USB:fd100000:2 Device Id: 258 Default: YES Selected: YES Complex DAC: YES Integer Mode Capable: YES Frame Buffer Sizes: 14 - 3072 Current Frame Buffer Size: 2048 Left Channel: 1 Right Channel: 2 Sample Rates: 44.1 48.0 88.2 96.0 Audio Streams: Stream ID: 260 Stream Number: 0 Starting Channel: 1 Total Channels: 4 Total Physical Formats: 14 Physical Format 1: Sample Rate: 96000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 2: Sample Rate: 88200 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 3: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 4: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 5: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 4 Bytes Per Frame: 12 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 12 Physical Format 6: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 4 Bytes Per Frame: 12 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 12 Physical Format 7: Sample Rate: 96000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 8: Sample Rate: 88200 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 9: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 10: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 6 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 6 Physical Format 11: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 4 Bytes Per Frame: 12 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 12 Physical Format 12: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 24 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: mcpl Channels Per Frame: 4 Bytes Per Frame: 12 Frames Per Packet: 1 Bytes Per Packet: 12 Physical Format 13: Sample Rate: 48000 Bit Depth: 16 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: 3cac Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 0 Frames Per Packet: 1536 Bytes Per Packet: 6144 Physical Format 14: Sample Rate: 44100 Bit Depth: 16 Format Flags: [ kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked kAudioFormatFlagIsNonMixable ] Format ID: 3cac Channels Per Frame: 2 Bytes Per Frame: 0 Frames Per Packet: 1536 Bytes Per Packet: 6144

It really is a shame that HDCD support has gone away. I would think that if this is such a good mastering tool that ALL of the releases by the Grateful Dead are mastered with it, that there would be some mid priced options to properly decode it. Maybe one of major players at a company like Musical Fidelity, Arcam, Cambridge Audio, Apogee ect. is a Deadhead and can convince them to make a mid priced USB DAC with support for HDCD. How about an Apogee Duet 3 with HDCD? How cool would it be for a Deadhead like me to have a decent USB portable DAC + Headphone amp for listening off my laptop that would play the new Europe '72 Complete material in all its HDCD glory... oh well, I can dream right?

Does anyone know if there is Mac app for the Mac OS that will do what dbpoweramp or HDCD.exe does to rip HDCDs into 24bit files? Karl

First, thanks for the replies. I did some digging and found out that the files will maintain the HDCD decoding. Any bit perfect rip will maintain the HDCD encoding. Here's a link to a thread on HeadFi that discusses this in some depth. http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/hdcd-computer-emu0404-possible-419541/ Now to find a good mid priced DAC that can decode it...... to be continued...

Questoin: If I rip a CD is the HDCD encoding maintained? I just got the new Grateful Dead Europe '72 Complete Box Set and I am currently ripping it using iTunes in ALAC. The discussion arose as to wether when I play the file back if the HDCD decoding is maintained when ripping in this manner. I currently do not have an HDCD capable DAC to test this (or an HDCD disc player to test burned discs from the file). So will the file maintain the HDCD decoding? I was under the impression that if the rip was "bit perfect" the HDCD encoding would be maintained. Also, anyone aware of a mid priced DAC that decodes HDCD? I have a LOT of Grateful Dead discs that are HDCD encoded and would like to get a DAC that decodes it. Karl