Foobar, Windows 7 & Wasapi

[Stratmangler]

Playing with the above this afternoon, and find that I've got issues with flac files @ 88.2kHz and 192kHz.
They come up as an unrecognised file type.
The files play just fine when I disable the Wasapi drivers.

Anyone else found any issues with the same?

[Vincent Kars]

If you don’t use WASAPI you are probably using the Win default, Direct Sound (DS)
All audio is resampled to the setting in the audio panel of the audio device.

What you can try:
Set the default to 24/88 and check if anything plays at all (there are problems with 88 in Win)
If nothing plays I suspect it is the Win audio driver used in combination with the DAC.

Set the default to 24/192 and check if anything plays.
If not it is probably a sample rate not supported by the DAC or in excess of the audio hardware in the PC

In cases like this it helps to how you have connected the PC and the DAC

[Stratmangler]

When I use the onboard drivers all files play.
My MoBo can handle 24/96 natively, so there's some downsampling taking place.
When I use the Wasapi drivers things fall down.

It's not a big issue - I stream to a Squeezebox Touch normally.

[Vincent Kars]

That is how WASAPI works.
If you send 24/192 over DS it will be down sampled according to the settings in the sound panel.
If you send 24/192 using WASAPI, it sends it straight, unaltered to the sound card.
As it can’t handle 24/192 it will not play.

[technobear]

Forget WASAPI!

Just use ASIO4All

Problem solved

[Stratmangler]

Forget WASAPI!

Just use ASIO4All

Problem solved

No it ain't
ASIO4All refuses to cooperate.

Like I said, it's not mission critical - I stream using a Squeezebox Touch.
That at least is trouble free.
All the guys who insist on playing directly off the computer must have a masochistic streak

[Welder]

I don't think asio4all can handle 24/192.

[Stratmangler]

I don't think asio4all can handle 24/192.

It doesn't work with Foobar on my machine at all.

[Welder]

All these driver/compatibility problems over USB was what in the end drove me to Linux, apart from I think it sounds better.

I think Tim has a Win7 machine and runs foobar. Maybe he can help out?

[technobear]

It doesn't work with Foobar on my machine at all.

This must surely be a simple setup issue.