i've just discovered foobar200 and i think it's absolutely wicked! but I have one gripe... i'm a music producer, and i have many different uncompressed file formats which i need to play in a quick and easy way... the files are many different word lengths - 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit floating point...

its really annoying then to have foobar2000 play back all files at a universally locked wordlength... i would love to be able to play back my longer word length files exactly as they are, without truncation or dithering to a lower bitrate...

hopefully this is not a pipedream... having foobar2000 play back files at their exact word length without truncating or dithering to a lower word length would make it the ultimate media player around

Welcome to the forums, but the development forum is not the right place for feature requests. *kindly points at forum descriptions*

Why don't you set the bits-per-sample to the highest value your soundcard supports (in the output section on the Playback preferences page)? Internally, all data is handled as floating point; 8 and 16 bit data will be padded with zeroes for output, so there is no loss of precision there (unless you use DSPs).

Unless your sound card supports something higher then 64 bit FP, foobar already does what you want