Foobar 2000, SPC & 44khz by kalemvar at 3:23 PM EDT on September 9, 2012
Hello,
Before asking the forum I tried many options without any result so I guess I can ask the expert around here
here is my problem, I'm playing some SNES .spc files with foobar 2000 they are playing well no problem at all but I would like to save some files in .mp3 but each time files are encoded in 32khz and I would like to save them in 44khz like the rest of my soundtrack files, is it possible? I can with NFS and GBS files so I guess it's possible with SPC too :-)
I wouldn't worry too much about the loss involved in upsampling 32KHz to 44.1KHz, you're transcoding to MP3 anyway. However, I wonder why you're set on having 44.1KHz MP3s. Unlike the GB and NES, the SNES does actually produce digital output at a reasonable frequency (32khz) that the emulator tries to reproduce faithfully. On NES (and I assume GB) you have waves generated at some rather high clock rate (on the MHz scale), and the 44.1khz is an approximation, and there are nonlinear analog interactions between the waves.
Thanks Franpa & hcs for your answers this help me to understand how this work. But is there a way to convert to 44khz, even if the files are little bigger (space doesn't matter) with foobar 2000 ?
Sure, when you're in the "Converter Setup" screen you need to click into the "Processing" tab. Find "Resampler (PPHS)" in the right column and click it over into the Active column. Click it, select "Configure selected", and make sure 44100 is selected in the drop-down list. That should do it...
I've asked before about 44.1KHz output for SPC in foobar2000 but I think the idea was snubbed. I still retain that SNESamp in Winamp sounds brighter and better for it, even if it less accurate.