in the new foobar, there's an option in the diskwriter for a 32 bit floating point wav pcm. what is it?
kjoonlee
Mar 16 2004, 04:20
It's just what it says. PCM with 32bit floating point samples. CDs use 16bit integer samples to record the amplitude of the signal at a given moment in time. If you encode it to something like MP3 or Vorbis, the amplitudes will be scaled to floating point values. If you decode, you can either: scale it to floating point, or scale it to integer.
http://doc.hydrogenaudio.org/wikis/hydrogenaudio/PCM