I have some ogg vorbis music files. When the Music folder is scanned it reads in the information properly from mp3 files, but not ogg files. It shows "Unknown Artist". I have checked the tags and the Artist is there. In addition, some programs display the Artist information (from the tag) when playing. But when you go to search by artist, all apps (I have tried several) show "Unknown Artist".
Does anyone know where the media scanning code is located? Maybe I could look at it and see why it isn't handling ogg files.
Thanks.
A fellow Vorbis user!
I have never gotten any ROM to view Vorbis tags - I also had this issue on early Pandigital Novel tablet ROM's, which were later corrected. I already asked VS CS to fix this, but I always assumed that I was the only one who ever called them about this.
I'm not sure if this is kernel or framework based.
Well, I see there is an MediaStore and associated classes and given that multiple music apps seem to be sharing the scanned library, I suspect it is in the Android code, not the Linux kernel. On my Ubuntu there is no problem with ogg files either. So any idea where to find the media scanning code?
Thanks.
Unfortunately I don't know. I usually use an app like Rockbox, which uses its own database.
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Yeah, I've noticed this as well, even on my Droid. It's definitely in the android code.
It's tough being a vorbis user...
Hey, just thought I'd chime in if you didn't mind me.
Yeah, I have a huge collection of Ogg Vorbis files on my computer, and my media player software on my laptop does not read tags either (my files were converted from mp3s, I thought maybe the tags were stripped out).
Same thing on my GTablet and my Nexus One, non of my media player software on Android reads the tags either (if they still exist).
In my case, the tags are definitely there - I know because I'm meticulous with adding them. My Cowon S9 sees them, Rhythmbox sees them, but not the music players on this device (except Rockbox).
Want this fixed? Call VS and complain, in all seriousness. I think the guy on the phone almost laughed at me when I told him Vorbis tags were broken. Not exactly high on their priority list.
Btw, transcoding MP3's to Vorbis should be avoided, if at all possible. It's a lossy to lossy transfer, which means that there will be quality loss. Think of the old days of copying a VHS tape to another tape - each generation is inferior to the previous one. If you can, keep your "master" copy as a lossless file like ALAC or FLAC, and from the best source you can find (like a CD). That way, you can make lossy copies from that lossless source to reduce quality losss.
(I'm a big music fan).
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Btw, transcoding MP3's to Vorbis should be avoided, if at all possible. It's a lossy to lossy transfer, which means that there will be quality loss. Think of the old days of copying a VHS tape to another tape - each generation is inferior to the previous one. If you can, keep your "master" copy as a lossless file like ALAC or FLAC, and from the best source you can find (like a CD). That way, you can make lossy copies from that lossless source to reduce quality losss.
(I'm a big music fan).
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Yeah, well, gotta conserve space somewhere (and I don't have a FLAC converter).
Still, I need space for more music and since OGG helps me to save space a little bit, it's totally worth it for me.
Sorry, but I lose my master copies as soon as the conversion is done. The originals were copies from CDs using other software (as in, straight from the CD audio .cda to .MP3 and then to .OGG, but not always. Sometimes, I go straight to .OGG.).
I put the CDs back in their cases and the temporary file is deleted is what I mean.
I remember VHS tapes!
Wow, I feel old... I wonder if their quality degrades over time?
I'd hate to see what they look like now...
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Hey guys!!
Just back my O2 Atom Exec and updated it to WM6. I have an extensive collection of loseless audio and i was curious as to which media player supports it. They are in a couple of format, with most of them being in .wv and .ape and the rest in .flac.
I have installed Coreplayer and Pocket Player 3.2 and tried .wv and .flac files.
Coreplayer plays .flac fine but the library kind of sucks and it ain't easy to browse through your collection of music. However, it wont detect the .wv file.
Pocket Player on the other hand simply wont work with either despite claiming on the website that it does. I have tried opening the .flac audio manually but the name of the song (time after time) becomes illegible (like with my chinese song) and when i try to play it, it doesnt work. It says the filetype is .mp3 but that is not true, it is actually .flac....what the?? Also tried to manually open .wv but doesn't work either
So i am confused as to which program actually does work with all the lossless format? Could someone enlgihten.
Btw i did find this link http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/2006/12/16/mobile-lossless-players/
that had all the supported player that claims to support loseless format.
Also, could someone explain why i cant read chinese/japanese filenames? Any fixs so i can see it properly on pocketplayer/coreplayer?
Common guys, as if no one prefers loseless over mp3..
Sorry mate, I used to play flac using TCPMP( free version of coreplayer) was impressed with the sound but not the size of the files. sticking to AACplus now, good luck
haha are you joking get a bigger memory card or one of those special mp3 player
the quality is just so much better
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haha are you joking get a bigger memory card or one of those special mp3 player
the quality is just so much better
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Music file size ratio is generally a personal preference and you dont just go 'haha' on others preferences. If bigger memory card is not your problem, I'd guess you can always play the high quality lossless WAV on your WMPlayer
Anyway, not much help from me here, read on if you wish.
Anyway, as for lossless or not audio file format, I really wonder how much difference does it make. I personally can't really tell the difference as I'm using relatively low quality earphones and stuff, and consider I listen it when I'm on the move, where you get street noises and such (despite the noise isolation property of the earphones). So, it would be interesting if you were to do a blind test yourself on a relatively real environment. That, is to get a list of songs, say 10-20 songs, all both in the flac, and mp3 formats. Get a friend of you to play you these songs at random (using Coreplayer, which support both format), then you make a guess on which format the song is playing. Get a good number of samples and see if you score above 75%. If you score around 40-60%, chances are, you are thinking (mentally biased) that the sound is actually better than it is (e.g. due to the distortion of the A2D converter, crack in the shielding screen on your headphone, street noises, etc.). If you were to score 25% or lower, that's interestingly MP3 is better (much unlikely).
If you really do this, let me know the results Much eager to know it.
Problem for me is, I am the type who like to have just one device to rule "do" them all, that's why my lowly wizard does it all, my video player, music player, pda and telephone. I only got 2Gb but I got heaps of songs on it plus some movies.
AAc plus is good mate better than MP3 IMHO, I heard flac but the size is just not worth it.. and I don't clean my ears that often ;-) so why bother..
Simple question really. I'm guessing that it won't be able to, and that you'll need a different app which won't integrate properly into all areas of the OS. I can't find any info on it though.
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Audio support
Windows Media® Audio Standard3 (WMA) (.wma); Up to 384 Kbps; constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) up to 48-kHz sample rate;
WMA Pro two channel up to 768 Kbps; CBR and VBR up to 48-kHz
WMA Lossless: two channel up to 768 kbps and 48-kHz
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC-LC) (.mp4, .m4a, .m4b); .m4a and .m4b files without FairPlay DRM up to 320 Kbps; CBR and VBR up to 48-kHz
MP3 (.mp3); Up to 320 Kbps; CBR and VBR up to 48-kHz
That's copied from the ZuneHD tech specs. I don't see OGG there, so I don't expect it to be compatible. However they might add it on the long run.
I found a great reply to this over at another site, which I'm probably not allowed to mention or link to, so here's the text:
"There is a managed implementation for mono called csvorbis, it includes a sample which outputs a wav file this didn't need many changes to work with XNA's SoundEffect class. I did a whole track at once, this took a few seconds in the emulator so you may need to stream it using DynamicSoundEffect for better results. The mooncodecs folder has a codec for the desktop version based on csvorbis which may be worth a look aswell."
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Also this:
"With pain. You would have to port the Vorbis source code to safe, managed C# to decode the Vorbis file. I can think of less painful things, such as the removal of both feet."
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I'm sure I read that Microsoft will be allowing native code soon, after a request from Nokia, so fingers crossed that they'll implement something. It seems unlikely, so maybe this will fall to XDA developers.
There isn't a current solution yet is there? Maybe via a custom ROM?
Why bother with OGG since .wma and .aac are far superior? .wav is the best but the files are too large.
prohibido_por_la_ley said:
Why bother with OGG since .wma and .aac are far superior? .wav is the best but the files are too large.
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Please stay on topic, the OP didn't ask which one was better.
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Hello everyone.
Registered user here of the pro version, I was wondering if its possible to implement IFO support when it comes to play a VIDEO_TS folder.
Playing vob files works great. I usually rip the DVD main movie via MakeMKV and play the resulting MKV with MPEG2 flawlessly, but when that main movie is greater than 4 GB I cannot do anything, because my device doesn't support any filesystem other than FAT32. That's why the IFO support would make this OK, copy vob files (1 GB) with IFO file and play as a standard VIDEO_TS folder (Im not talking about menus, just the IFOs)
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Hello everyone.
Registered user here of the pro version, I was wondering if its possible to implement IFO support when it comes to play a VIDEO_TS folder.
Playing vob files works great. I usually rip the DVD main movie via MakeMKV and play the resulting MKV with MPEG2 flawlessly, but when that main movie is greater than 4 GB I cannot do anything, because my device doesn't support any filesystem other than FAT32. That's why the IFO support would make this OK, copy vob files (1 GB) with IFO file and play as a standard VIDEO_TS folder (Im not talking about menus, just the IFOs)
Thanks
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Normally if you start playing first vob file, then after completing first file mx will play the second vob file automatically. it'll be automatically added to the queue if it's in the same folder. (make sure "back to list" is disable in Settings 》Player)
Thanks.
Yes, I know that. The problem is when the movie has several audio or subtitle tracks, sometimes its unpredictable which one is gonna start with the next vob file, because the vob files by themselves don't have an identification of language other than 0x80-like, so you gotta change the track again and there's a pause that wouldn't be with an IFO file. Also, depending of the methods and tools of extracting the vobs, sometimes the length of the vob gets confused.
I am aware that is possible to watch a whole movie with this, I was just wondering probably this is not a big implementation (almost like a playlist?) and could make the playing of DVD movies an awesome feature. I understand this is not a feature most people would request, but I like not having to convert, just extract the movie, and watch it as is. Even when I know by H264 standards is a waste of space, but with 32gb cards that cheap nowadays, it's comfortable.
Thanks.
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Thanks.
Yes, I know that. The problem is when the movie has several audio or subtitle tracks, sometimes its unpredictable which one is gonna start with the next vob file, because the vob files by themselves don't have an identification of language other than 0x80-like, so you gotta change the track again and there's a pause that wouldn't be with an IFO file. Also, depending of the methods and tools of extracting the vobs, sometimes the length of the vob gets confused.
I am aware that is possible to watch a whole movie with this, I was just wondering probably this is not a big implementation (almost like a playlist?) and could make the playing of DVD movies an awesome feature. I understand this is not a feature most people would request, but I like not having to convert, just extract the movie, and watch it as is. Even when I know by H264 standards is a waste of space, but with 32gb cards that cheap nowadays, it's comfortable.
Thanks.
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We will check out this feature.
Thanks
Hi there.
Great player and thanks very much for all the devs' hard work. I'm wondering, since I have more than 25,000 DVDs in my collection, if there has been any further consideration of implementing a full DVD play feature.
Thanks.
Any update on this? I would be prepared to pay money for a full DVD play feature to be implemented.
Thanks.
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why the *beep* is it so maddeningly, annoyingly unreliable to copy mp3 files to a phone?????
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No matter how I transfer my mp3 collection to my phone, there are ALWAYS some files where the stupid thing fails to read the mp3 tags, so they show up as "unknown artist - unknown album".
the part that drives me to the point of picturing phone shaped holes in my window is that its always different files, plus all my mp3 files in fact DO have proper tags.
Device in question: every one I had so far. right now: S8+ running 7.1.2 stock, rooted, adopted storage.
...could the adopted storage be the reason?
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why the *beep* is it so maddeningly, annoyingly unreliable to copy mp3 files to a phone?????
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No matter how I transfer my mp3 collection to my phone, there are ALWAYS some files where the stupid thing fails to read the mp3 tags, so they show up as "unknown artist - unknown album".
the part that drives me to the point of picturing phone shaped holes in my window is that its always different files, plus all my mp3 files in fact DO have proper tags.
Device in question: every one I had so far. right now: S8+ running 7.1.2 stock, rooted, adopted storage.
...could the adopted storage be the reason?
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Have you tried zipping them?..if so idk
... you mean all android music players can play mp3 files from within a zipped archive without unzipping it first? really?
He meant zipping them for transfer, then extract them on the phone.
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Simple answer. There are different Tag formats. It sounds like you might have some songs using tag formats that some players don't recognise. All might look okay when you see your media library in a desktop player like Foobar2k that reads all tag formats, but once you move them to your phone the mobile apps that don't read all formats fall over on a few files.
Download Mp3Tag and work through your collection. Start with the songs you're having problems with and compare with a song that you're not having a problem with. See what is different about them. Delete all tags from one of the problematic songs and rewrite them using Mp3Tag. See if that works.
It turns out to be an encoding issue- I change tags to Unicode and rescan my library, and all is fine...
Most of my music is MP3's, but one of nmy favourite albums is in WMA. I just noticed that my phone can't play back WMA audio files.
I have tried both from my music app (Vinyl) and also the built in player in my file manager (MiX).
I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
Is it just me? 0r is it a known failing of A11 on the pixel 4a, that it cant decode WMA audio?
Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
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Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
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Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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In my OP i already stated that VLC can play WMA files. I do not use VLC as my default music player.
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I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
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Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
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Thanks, but I am not looking for a replacement of my music player. I am asking if this is the case for everyone. PS. I am still on the march build of A11.
No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
blackhawk said:
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
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Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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MS free, really...
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Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
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It is pretty clear that it would not support WMA, but I was simply checking that it was not specific to my phone. I do have a lot of customisations.
My previous device was running Oreo, and it ... wait ...whaaat... I just checked my old old Oreo device, and it doesnt support WMA either. I never noticed that before.
It's probably because WMA is a Microsoft format and might require a license/royalty, just like why the Pixel doesn't support exFAT because that too is a Microsoft format.
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MS free, really...
ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
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The codec maybe not the content.
I have over 6000 .wav and HDCD files... it's too late
Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
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Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
buffal0b1ll said:
Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrad the audio quality...
buffal0b1ll said:
Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrade the audio quality...
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
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This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
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The subtext creates the broader sound stage which you can hear when using a stereo (or more) image in an open listening area.
An inaudible 20 khz audio wave collides with a inaudible 18 khz audio wave to produce a 2 khz wave that you can hear and so on. Thousands of interactions per second.
Many HDCDs are not label as such.
You need a 24 bit digital signal path to a 24 bit or higher DAC to glean about 90-92% of the HDCD subtext. A HDCD decoder gleams 100% of it.
HDCDs are around a 22 bit image vs a CDs 16 bit.