How to resample with MPD

[agent_kith]

Hah, funny you should say this. I was just going to ask how well the atom processor handles resampling. I love the way the RPi/digione combo sounds but it falls way short in the processing department. 

It'll work in general. But there are times when audio will start skipping. e.g. when scanning the music DB.

I would ultimately love to hear what libsamplerate sounds like in all its glory but it's definately an audio slideshow with the Pi. With LMS I am able to offload all the processing to a separate, more powerful PC and when fully maxed out, the Sox processing on LMS seems to sound better than that on MPD but it still sounds a bit dull compared to SRC on MPD. 

For now, until RPi gets more powerful or there is a more cost effective way to get that level of sound I guess I'm stuck with what I got.....and I'm certainly not complaining!

It depends on user preferences I think. There's a pro and con to every tweak. With upsampling in general, the pros in my setup is better bass response, improvement in clarity (SRC), better pin point precision.

The downside, OTOH, is the "rawness" of the voice is gone. Not sure how to explain this, but to me when music is upsampled, with some recordings, the music becomes like a recording, instead of a real live performance. This isn't necessary a bad thing, but since my Atom can't keep up, I just disabled it and havn't really looked into this since.

Last few years, upsampling is picking up moementum again (it's a feature a lot has been asking for), and walkthroughs like this will definitely help people set up this system for this.