Re: [LAU] Best-quality command-line float32-to-16-bit conversion?

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31:38PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
>
> > I have Ecasound, sndfile-convert and sox. But from these three I
> > deem sndfile-convert to be the best. but I seem to remember, that
> > Fons Adriaensen recently released a tool/library to do the same
> > task. I believe it is as good as or better than sndfile-convert. I
> > seem to recall, that there were issues with finetuning dithering,
> > that sndfile didn't offer. As I said, I'm not 100% syure about that.
>
> That is the 'resample' application, part of the source distribution
> of zita-resampler. For 16-bit output it offers rectangular,
> triangular or Lipschitz noise shaped dithering.
>

Thanks, I'm looking at the different dithering types here:

http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/dithering.html

And wondering, which is the "best" of them to use?

Looks to me like the rectangular creates the fewest harmonics. Am I reading this correctly?

Thanks.

-ken
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Received on Sat Apr 24 04:15:02 2010