How to resample with MPD

[agent_kith]

I agree wholeheartedly and know EXACTLY what you're talking about when you mention the "rawness" of a voice or that some recordings sound too much like a..well...recording. On recordings that have great depth and lots of ambience it seems some of that "live" character gets lost when resampling. Unfortunately for me I don't have a library of flac files to access (maybe i should start ripping some cds) as i use Tidal exclusively just out of pure laziness.

I have a lot of CDs. Not crazy many, but enough for me to last a while. As such I have not explored the likes of Tidal and Spotify yet.

On alot of the finer recordings it definately does no justice to resample as you lose some of the character of the music. I couldn't have said it better myself...you described it perfectly. Slightly fuller bass and more pinpoint imaging, but there is that sacrifice of finer detail. I guess in this day and age of mp3s and bad cd rips resampling has indeed made a comeback because of its ability to smooth out some of the rough stuff and make crappy recordings easier to listen to on systems that tend to be picky about recordings. Man I miss the analog days...lol. Except for the hiss and crackles. I don't miss that so much.

It's the old "pick your poison" chestnut. Kind of what makes this hobby a lot of fun, as there is no universal solution that will suit every one. I am very happy to be able to come up with this Snakeoil OS to allow everybody to tailor their system exactly the way they want it.

It seemed like a crazy idea when first conceived, but to see so many acceptinig this philosophy, I am indeed honoured .