XXHighEnd

 :(Hi Peter,

I am blushing a litlle putting this question. (playing CD's with XXHE hahaha!)
But here is my story. Today I finished putting a second, very compact (Noah case), dedicated, what is dedicated, pc together. Firstly as a means of live-recording and secondly for use as musicplayer machine upstairs.
Build on cheap intel board, Atom230 1.6gig, W7 64bits Ultimate. Two gig ram.
The thing flies like an angle. Not fast, but i can live with it, for now.
Since there was space for a cd-player inside the cabinet, I completed it with a laptopkind cd/recorder/dvd player.
So I can rip-on-the-spot, make a copy of tracks, and playback in one stroke.
As sounddivice I use the new ASUS XONAR ESSENCE ST Pci intern card. It does it about all, including high resolution recording (up to 192\24) in a very respectable HQ. You where talking the other day about recording with XXHE, so here I am. Maybe I have to start another thread for this?
But yes, I am interessed knowing more about that.
My initial question however refers to playing back CD's.
Is there a way doing this by using XXHE? When I try to do so I get the message that the music has to be in a folder. That I can understand but I didn't manage to get it going. So I am stuck to the Windows Mediaplayer, what I really don't fancy.
I will not use it a lot but IF there is a way, I hope you can give me a helping hand.
And thanks again for the beautyful player!!

Ed

Hi Ed,

0.9y was ever meant for both recording and playing CDs directly. I got stuck with both though, because from one came the other, and before I knew I was over my head in derivals from it. So :

- Recording just works, if I only activate it *and* provide some neat means to save the tracks, appoint names to them and the like. All is in there, but meant for analysis, which comes down to using more technical track names, them always being saved in the same folder.

- Playback of CDs does not work yet. As you may recall I wanted both that and ripping to be the same internal function, so I started with ripping. Spent quite some days on that and a program with the outlines is there, though not tested for a single bit-rip. Still plan that for 0.9y somewhere though.

Not much you can do with right now ...

Btw, nice that Atom !

Peter

Thanks Peter, I can wait.!
On the other hand, with recording, I meant making live-recordings " in the field" using XXHE. But I think it will, after passing the ADC, go the same route as recording a CD. Correct me if I am wrong. The analog mixer signal will be converted in the souncard.
But ok, I'll have to wait a bit.

Ed

Yes, normal "live recording". No, this is not the same as recording a CD (if I get what you mean by that). It is about what you see below (although you will have found that yourself I'm sure) with the main facility that XXHighEnd records herself, passing through the bits similarly as how I push them out as accurately as possibe. I guess this is no big deal for any recording software, but here too counts : when you record in 24/96 it should not get resampled underway the path from the ADC to the disk.

To be honest Ed, I wouldn't wait until this is fully operational in XXHighEnd. The waiting may get too long. :)
Peter

Hi Peter,

Yeah, what happens in about al the recording-software I know and have worked with, while recording 24/96 it will be resampled to 32/96.
Maybe I can find a more simple way to put the stuff on the disk. I don't like the resampling, unless when burning a CD from it, I will have to downsample. But I prefer playing back my recordings untouched for my private use. And there is where XXHE comes in!
So, I'll wait for the cd-playback and recording thing and forget about the rest!
Thanks for your swift replies,

Ed :xx:
 

Thank you for your explanation Ed. I understand now.
As said 0.9y was meant to be for ripping and playback CDs directly with the same "XX Sound Quality", and nothing changed to that. It is only that I have been captured by a kazillion other things under way, and that really should never happen again. :heat:
So, I assume all has been settled down a bit now (0.9y-2), and I will proceed with it.

Mainly ripping intrigues me, because I want to make it super fast and super safe. Nice challenge ...
Peter