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wishlist: sample rate converter

Bug #782798 reported by Daniele Tebaldi
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Dear Mr. Booth,

 the moment I've seen your new Decibel I've instantly bought it.
I've been a satisfied user of your Play since I moved away from Foobar2000 and the Windows environment. Would you help me to get rid of Foobar once for all (and of Parallels, and a Windows virtual machine?). What Foobar still does, and it does in one single, almost-unattended pass, is to rip a CD, retrieve info from freedb.org, apply a sample rate converter of choice and save the file after having encoded it in .flac format.

You'll wonder why the sample rate converter, I know it's peculiar. The amplifier plattform of the concert-sound loudspeaker systems that my employer manufactures accept an AES-EBU input signal of either 48k or 96kHz, as latency in live sound is paramount as audio quality. Whatever signal you feed into the amplifier by AES-EBU (and we usually use 48 because it's more tolerant than 96 against possible issues in transport), you've cancelled an un-necessary D-to-A conversion, since the amplifier's front-end works with DSP that takes care of loudspeaker's needs, and you would convert even an analog signal to digital.

Is there any possibility that you can integrate a quality Sample Rate Converter (of different ones available as GNU parts) into your "input" chain comprised of Rip, Tag and Max? If I have to move what these three have created to Foobar anyway, for SRC purposes, I find it way easier to simply rip the CD from within foobar itself.

Is there a way I have failed to notice?

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