Can't play DSD256 files through foobar

2022-10-13 16:59:28

I cant play DSD256 files through foobar, i got a sound card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2 with DBPro module that provides the dsd support, i configured everything perfectly so i can play the dsd64 files, but when i want to play dsd 256 i receive message: "Unrecoverable playback error: Unsupported stream format: 705600 Hz / 24-bit / 2 channels" i suspect that this dsd is played in dop mode, its because my card supports the sample rate up to 192khz, dsd128 and 256 require a lot higher frequency, everything else is as it should be - the built in foobar volume bar doesn't work and its supposed to be like that, it works only with pcm music formats, i tried to play dsd throught asio dsd and i dont hear anything through it, tried wasapi event instead which works. Can someone tell me what im doing wrong and how to play dsd256 files through foobar and why i do not hear anything through asio even when selecting that dsd asio one?

Re: Can't play DSD256 files through foobar

Reply #1 – 2022-10-13 19:17:26

Until someone can answer, try a clean portable install of the latest foobar with these components:
foo_out_asio+dsd, foo_input_sacd, and maybe dsd_transcoder, foo_dsd_converter
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/

Re: Can't play DSD256 files through foobar

Reply #2 – 2022-10-13 22:09:09

Ok it helped thanks.

Re: Can't play DSD256 files through foobar

Reply #3 – 2022-10-21 17:25:46

Just a quick FYI: you can compress you DSD files with WavPack if you haven't already done that. It saves a ton of space, and the files will be played back as DSD if the software and hardware supports it, but if not they will automatically be converted on the fly to PCM. Really useful. See here for more info: https://www.wavpack.com/wavpack_doc.html

Re: Can't play DSD256 files through foobar

Reply #4 – 2022-10-21 18:26:03

Note, then you need to use the WavPack executable - but it can compress by drag and drop, you don't need to fire up a command-line.
And if you rename wavpack.exe as per developer's suggestion here, you will get the higher compression and checksum when you drop the DSD file onto it. 

The "-x" does nothing to DSD files, but no harm either - for DSD it will just be ignored.)