Dithering lowers digital-to-analog conversion ("requantization") error, linearizing output, lowering distortion and replacing it with a constant, fixed noise level, which is more pleasant to the ear than the distortion.
Guidance:
- On S24, S24_3 and S24, the default is to use triangular dithering. Depending on personal preference you may use Gaussian dithering instead; it's not as good objectively, but it may be preferred subjectively if you are looking for a more "analog" sound akin to tape hiss.
- Advanced users who know that they have a DAC without noise shaping have a third option: high-passed dithering, which is like triangular dithering except that it moves dithering noise up in frequency where it is less audible. Note: 99% of DACs are of delta-sigma design with noise shaping, so unless you have a multibit / R2R DAC, or otherwise know what you are doing, this is not for you.
- Don't dither or shape noise on S32 or F32. On F32 it's not supported anyway (there are no integer conversions and so no rounding errors) and on S32 the noise level is so far down that it is simply inaudible even after volume normalisation and control.
New command line option:
--dither DITHER Specify the dither algorithm to use - [none, gpdf,
tpdf, tpdf_hp]. Defaults to 'tpdf' for formats S16
S24, S24_3 and 'none' for other formats.
Notes:
This PR also features some opportunistic improvements. Worthy of mention are:
- matching reference Vorbis sample conversion techniques for lower noise
- a cleanup of the convert API
Usage: `--format {F32|S16}`. Default is F32.
- Implemented for all backends, except for JACK audio which itself
only supports 32-bit output at this time. Setting JACK audio to S16
will panic and instruct the user to set output to F32.
- The F32 default works fine for Rodio on macOS, but not on Raspian 10
with Alsa as host. Therefore users on Linux systems are warned to set
output to S16 in case of garbled sound with Rodio. This seems an issue
with cpal incorrectly detecting the output stream format.
- While at it, DRY up lots of code in the backends and by that virtue,
also enable OggData passthrough on the subprocess backend.
- I tested Rodio, ALSA, pipe and subprocess quite a bit, and call on
others to join in and test the other backends.
Probably more simple than the previous approach which
doubles the code: Instead of implementing the `Open` trait,
we simply use custom SinkBuilder, one for the default host,
and one for the "jack" host.
A bunch of stuff got moved around; means of constructing audio output port
changed.
I simply used the commits, mostly from [1], to their examples to figure
out how to address the errors that resulted from compiling after the
version bump. It compiles cleanly again now.
[1]: https://github.com/RustAudio/rust-jack/pull/89
(needed to be done together)
there was no changelog for gstreamer and far too many commits to check
compatibility, but compiling with the gstreamer backend feature works fine
with these new versions.
requires adding dependency on libpulse-simple-sys since the PulseAudio
simple components were moved to their own crate (the original version
did not stick to the one crate per one system library rule).
this fixes the licensing compatibility issue discussed in #539 ([1])
(the original v0.0.0 was LGPL-3.0 licensed, while v1.11 onwards are
'MIT OR Apache-2.0').
[1]: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/539
