Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> 2009/8/13 James Tomaschke <ja...@orcasystems.com>:
>> Rather, your suggestion of forcing a single format, prevents my
>> applications from using other formats, and it requires I implement
>> conversions.  This is because you limit freedom by placing a simple
>> interface into kernelspace.
> 
> This is the silliest thing I've seen posted in this thread. No offense
> intended, but if you choose the highest available sample size and bit
> rate available to the card, you are not limiting anybody: the
> limitation becomes the hardware. If that's an issue, get really
> ridiculously high quality analog devices, and stop being so anal about
> your perfect ears.

How can an application select a higher sample size if the interface to
the driver only supports signed 16-bit samples?

"the limitation becomes the hardware"
Music App 24...@192khz -> #audio 16bit -> Hardware 24...@192khz.

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