[wdmaudiodev] Re: Re : Re: USB Audio/WASAPI channel limits?
- From: Børge Strand-Bergesen <borge.strand@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:52:14 +0100
ASIO has two great features.
1) No "pling you got mail" embedded in your favourite recordings
2) It sets up the DAC with the sample rate of the stored music, not
the OS's default sample rate
Audiophiles know they don't want "pling you got mail". They don't
(all/yet) know they want no sample rate conversion in the OS. But let
them listen, and they tend to be convinced.
I'm sure there are ways for programmers or expert users to sort out
both issues. But for my users it is easier to install an ASIO driver,
flip the DAC over from the default UAC1 to UAC2, and import their
music files into an ASIO compliant player.
In fact, a future universal UAC2 driver should have the option of a
simple control panel. Which, when enabled, would display the sample
rate in the taskbar and have a simple mechanism to rule out all audio
sources but the player program of choice.
Børge
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Philip Gruebele <pgruebele@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that the lack of standards support is not a strategy that MS can
> continue pursuing in today's competitive market.
>
> It is doing the same thing with the lack of Bluetooth Low Energy support
> under Windows Phone. The competition (AKA Apple & Google) is simply leaving
> MS behind in this regard.
>
> -phil
>
>
> Jerry Evans wrote:
>
> Hello Tim,
>
>
>
> I have to disagree.
>
>
>
> Lack of standards compliance from Microsoft is a barrier for vendors and
> dissuades consumers from purchasing 'unsupported' hardware. Build it and
> they will come.
>
>
>
> WASAPI has enabled us to push this project forward. I'm not convinced anyone
> could have made a business case for its provision. But eventually it
> arrived, and was quickly supported by all the major DAW's. Surely a much,
> much tougher nut to crack than a relatively mundane driver ...
>
>
>
> From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
> Sent: 13 February 2014 18:39
> To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Re : Re: USB Audio/WASAPI channel limits?
>
>
>
> Timothy Knudtson wrote:
>
> To four decimal places, Audio Class 1.0 satisfies 100% of the Windows users
> in the world.
>
>
>
> Where does this number come from?
>
>
> The problem is sheer volume. There are a billion Windows machines in the
> world. How many really need to use USB Audio 2 devices right now? Maybe
> 1,000? Maybe 10,000? 999,990,000 out of a billion is 100%, to four
> significant digits.
>
> That's the problem Microsoft faces. They need to make sure all of the
> corporate secretaries in the world can listen to Michael Bolton through
> iTunes. 16-channel 192 kHz audio is cool, but there just isn't widespread
> business demand for it yet.
>
> --
>
> Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
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