Does the 8GB Clip hardware have the ability to handle 24 bit audio?

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Hey guys, quick question.

I downloaded a rare album of one of my favorite bands that I was looking for that was ripped from a HDCD version, so the files are 24 bit, instead of the regular 16 bit.

I placed 3 of the songs on the player, but they won’t play.  As soon as I hit play, it just starts cycling through all 3, as if the song was less than a second long.

Am I to understand that the Clip can’t handle 24bit FLAC files?

Message Edited by Warrior1986 on 03-30-2009 02:26 PM

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Bump for the answer.

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are these files in MP3 format? i would suggest reripping the cd in flac format. they will be better quality and probably will resolve your issue.

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Frankly, I’ve never tried 24bit files on my clip, even though I deal with 24/96 files all of the time.  If I have such a file, I always dither down to 16/44.1 “red book” standard to be played on the clip.  I only hear a slight difference on state of the art studio equipment between the two, so the benefit in the clip handling such files would be miniscule at best.

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@drlucky wrote:
are these files in MP3 format? i would suggest reripping the cd in flac format. they will be better quality and probably will resolve your issue.

No, they are encoded in FLAC.