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In response, Grubb doubled-down: “They are…” On an episode of gaming podcast Kinda Funny Games, while discussing a forthcoming project from Xbox studio The Initiative, Grubb straight up stated: “It means Perfect Dark, Y’all.”Ī commenter in the live chat was quick to push back, replying “I don’t know if Perfect Dark is something Microsoft would wanna spend potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on. Though the news is currently being billed as a ‘rumour’, considering the source it’s more likely a ‘soft confirm’ than anything else given it came straight from the mouth of gaming industry big wig Jeff Grubb. The latest such erstwhile IP to be zhooshed for modern audiences is none other than cult classic Nintendo 64 title Perfect Dark.

But you know what? It’s even easier to to simply not overthink it and simply trust-fall into the fertile garden bed of content from our youth that has been brought into the current era.

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Lossless Switcher is available free of charge from Neo’s Github repository.As we lose ourselves in the current glory days of the Age Of Revisionism, it’s easy to forget about the younger generations who, in lieu of their own cool content, have been left wearing older generations’ content hand-me-downs. Vincent Neo warns that “there may be short interruptions to your audio playback, during the time where the app attempts to switch the sample rates.” He also says that his app has yet to be tested on an M1 Mac. Lossless Switcher reads the sample rate of the incoming Apple Music stream and then automatically sets the corresponding sample rate in the Audio MIDI Setup app. Once installed and running, the app runs in the menu bar at the top of the screen, next to the clock. Vincent Neo’s LosslessSwitcher app “switches your current audio device’s sample rate to match the currently playing a lossless song on your Apple Music app, automatically.” And this is only achievable on MacOS by manually specifying the Audio MIDI Setup app’s sample rate on a track-by-track (or album-by-album) basis. Only when no resampling takes place do we have what is known as ‘bit-perfect playback’. Resampling can subtly alter the sound of a stream heard on a more resolving hi-fi or head-fi system. If we hit play on a 44.1kHz file but the Audio MIDI Setup app is set to 96kHz, we gain dummy data (and arguably lose again). If we hit play on, say, a 192kHz hi-res lossless stream but the Audio MIDI Setup app is set to 44.1kHz, we lose data. Upsampling and downsampling are collectively referred to as resampling.

audio samples are thrown away by the operating system when the incoming sample rate sits above the Audio MIDI app’s output setting.

audio samples are interpolated by the operating system when the incoming sample rate sits below the Audio MIDI app’s output setting.Why? MacOS will adjust the data’s output according to the settings specified in the Audio MIDI Setup app. Unless we are extremely vigilant, the audio data that we pulled from Apple’s servers isn’t necessarily that which reaches our DAC. Running Apple Music on MacOS? For hi-res enthusiasts looking to get the very best from Apple’s lossless content, the gotcha is an absence of automatic sample-rate switching.

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