I got the plex pass thinking that I could upsample some of my FLAC files to higher sample rate. I see that it can do “bit perfect” now but am confused as to what Sample Rate Converter option actually does? I’ve got it set to 64 point sinc. But don’t notice anything different. My DAC still shows it’s playing the original sample rate.
Why can’t we have a simple upsample feature for non bit perfect playback? Many apps do this for free ie.) foobar, etc. Needing plex pass just to play bit perfect is kinda ridiculous…
It changes the sample rate.
If you set the sample rate matching in the settings away from “strict”, it can happen that follow-up songs need to be converted if the start song had a different sample rate. In order to use song overlapping, songs need to have the same sample rate.
I wish for that as well. I have a kind of special DAC which has a semi-fixed SR. So I would prefer all playback queues to use that fixed SR. Resample all songs as needed.
I am nudging gently now and then for the addition of this option. So far though it hasn’t materialized.
So if the song I’m playing is at 16/44.1 kHz the next song is 24/96 kHz, what does it do exactly? Will it downsample to match the song before just to overly? Do I need to turn off sweet fades to stop that?
why can’t we have simple name settings like enable/disable Bit Perfect playback? This Sample Rate Converter setting is misleading and seems useless to me.
SR conversion and bitperfect are mutually exclusive. If you enable the latter, you won’t need the former.
If you set a fixed SR, some songs cannnot be played, unless you disable bit-perfect playback.
I agree, it would be more intuitively if the SR conversion settings only appear if bitperfect is disabled.
Though I don’t remember if there are situations where we need both.
(From the top of my head, I think if the file uses a proprietary codec, we have no choice but to convert/resample. Same if we try to play a surround sound file from a remote server, and there is a bitrate limitation in effect. Would you rather ditch bit-perfection in this case or simply refuse to play the track?
You see, it can get complex. )
I don’t see a situation where you would need both. Technically, if you are resampling the original file, it is no longer bit perfect.
I don’t use any proprietary codec for my use case. No MQA or surround sound files. I strictly use Plexamp for music only, so mostly FLAC and occasionally maybe some DSD.
If conversion is needed, probably makes sense to disable bit perfect. Or you could simply say it’s not supported. I’m not sure how often this occurs, is this even a use case we need to solve for?
