Letters To The Snakeoil Squad

Emails are still the #1 support medium in Snakeoil. The exchanges between us and you covers a broad area of interest - including audiophile topics, computing theory, science, banter and more. Here are some publication of interest.

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Category: "Letters"

Letters #002: Decode FLAC into WAV for playback

Posted by Agent Kith on 17 Oct 2019 in Letters

Question

Xavier says on 15 Oct 2019:

Flac decoding doesn’t sound as good as playing .wav file. On my system, it’s fairly obvious.

Would it possible to have MPD doing this?
Step 1: Decode FLAC as wav file and store that into RAM Disk
Step 2: Play from Ramdisk the .wav file

This would be a great addition to SnakeOil.
As far as I know, no other tool do that.

Letters #001: Bench Of Retards

Posted by Agent Kith on 02 Apr 2019 in Letters

Hardly have time to write new and original content this days. Some of the emails correspondence makes pretty good blogging material. So I always have a desire to dedicate a special section for this. Just never find the time to do so. Until now. Hopefully this will be a good way to add some content to this blog. Here’s the first, and hopefully many to come.

Letter

From Marc (31st Mar 2019 4:43 PM):

on atom absed?
i got a black screen on atom n2800
BENCH OF RETARDS

From Marc (31st Mar 2019 10:26 PM):

hi after waitng few minutes ON A NONSENSE black screen
installation began
after waitng loooong to let the setup finish
scanned my Library took a hear test
i installed latest firmware AND ALL MY TIME got to trash!!!!!!!!!!
i’m using Windows 2012 core optimized for free that sounds a WAYYYYYYYYY better than your crap system
DO YOU REALLY THINK I WILL PAY A CENT FOR THIS SHIT
fuck you retard and put your stupid system in your big asshole

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