Just received Peter Gabriel's "Scratch My Back" 2CD edition. While I certainly can rip the music myself, from March 2 on, there will be a 24bit/48KHz download version that was included in the price. Can I play these high-res files back on the n900 without limitation, or will they be down-converted to 16bit anyway on playback? Using my Sennheiser HD600, I found FLAC files more "airy" than lossy-compressed files, and I'd like to explore the upper limit of what is possible on the n900.
I've got a collection of cd's encoded to flac 24 bit, but i get unable to play message when i try to play them in media player. 16 bit flac files work fine. Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong ? or perhaps the codec limits for flac decode? recommend one.