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What you need to listen to lossless audio and Dolby Atmos on Apple Music but from my math intuition, if you're downsampling and using an integer fraction (here you're going to subsample by exactly 1/2), that's relatively unlikely.īesides clipping, there are no other possible negative effects if you use a good resampler (such as SoX).This might be helpful to folk, current as of yesterday and have a good little cheat sheet, but if it has such peaks, then it depends. and there are also no downsides from enabling the dithering except that this will increase the file size a little (after lossless compression with codecs like FLAC) but this is also going to be extremely littleĢ) if the original recording doesn't have 'true peaks' above 0 dBFS, then no a proper resampler will not produce peaks higher than that no matter what sample rate you use. I'd expect 'true' (upsampled) peak scans to be close, unless the input contained extreme ultrasonic content that was removed during resampling.ġ) yes the distortion from simple rounding will be impossible to hear in the vast majority of real life cases and with normal listening volume. You would normalize the resampled signal. FLAC is good at compressing quiet signal with unused MSBs.

No 'wasted' LSBs exist yet without deliberate word length reduction, to some arbitrary size, for example, 20-bit. If gain is increased during normalization, FLAC will receive more least-significant bits filled with noise, and the bitrate will increase. The only reason to avoid dithering I can think of is if passing through clips that are mono, contain long passages of absolute silence or may already be at the target sampling rate, in which case dither will inflate the bitrate after compression. Theoretically, dither is needed because the word length is increased during resampling to 32-bit or greater, but the quantization error is so tiny that it makes no practical difference.

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