Spotify - anyone got it Bit Perfect out to external DAC?

[alpine]

Hi All,

 

I'm trying to get the PCM/Wave/I2S/whatever it is output from the Spotify player direct to my external DACs and bypassing KMixer for XP and the sound controls in 7.

 

I'm trying to send bit perfect to my Valab NOS and 0404USB DACs. Has anyone else been able to do this? The nearest I have got is with ReClock, but for some reason ReClock does not intercept PCM from MCE (something to do with ehshell.exe) and it looks like not for Spotify either. I have both XP and 7. ReClock can Kernel Stream / WASAPI Exclusive the PCM straight to the DAC normally.

 

Any advice on getting bit perfect with Spotify most appreciated!!

 

[Audio_ELF]

I'm not sure bit-perfect really matters with Spotify as it's a (lossy) compressed audio format.

 

Eloise

 

[alpine]

Good point. Spotify's codec is Ogg Vorbis q9 @ 320kbps. That's the highest streaming music service available! And will sound even better by bypassing KMixer....

 

[Audio_ELF]

Surely just ensurig all volumes are at 100% is sufficient for Spotify, and with Windows 7 set bit rate to 16/44.1.

 

Eloise