pete321:
Gerrardasnails:I read about an ASIO plugin for WMP the other day. I'm in the same predicament I think; I have to use WMP (WMA Lossless) as I use a WM extender. My Dacmagic shows that even when I'm playing 24bit files, 48khz is lit. I'm no expert but thought that if the WMP was bitperfect, this would not happen. Anyway, I downloaded the plugin http://sourceforge.net/projects/asiowmpplg/files/ but I got an error code come up when I tried to play a song. I have no idea if this plugin, once I've got it to work, will sort my problem out, but it could help you.
Didn't we come to the conclusion that it was WM Extender that was the culprit in your system?
You can adjust the output signal in Windows to 16bit 44.1kHz (albeit the signal still goes through some sort of unwanted processing), but the WM Extender then upsamples the signal to 48kHz? My PC sits in my hifi rack so I can get my PC to send a 16bit/44kHz signal to my DacMagic, but it still goes through WIndows processing. I can get round the problem by using Foobar2000 with WASAPI plugin, the difference is quite noticeable. But that's no good if I want to use WMP and Media Center. I've read about the ASIO, Kernel Streaming and WASAPI, I get the impression it's the latter that's needed for Vista or Windows 7 and I know it works on my PC with Foobar. I
read that Slysoft's ReClock can work on a 32bit application such as the WMP 32bit, but I can't get it to work. I know it's not my Asus soundcard, because I can get bit perfect with Foobar, but you've got to be a computer programmer to get the user interface useable! It's all very frustrating once you've had a taste of what your WMA Lossless music can sound like!
you are probably right but because I can't get any real audio info from the extender manual, and it's free, I'm just interested in trying to get any extra out of my system. I'm very happy with the sound I get but we are all interested in improvements.