Have you got a DAC capable of 24bit playback then I couldn't recommend this app enough! I was searching for such a beast recently and came across it in, of all places, an Ubuntu forum and had to investigate further. I noticed it was in the repositories so initially tried that (I have openSUSE Tumbleweed) but it would play. So I bit the bullet and downloaded the tar file from Deadbeef.
I must stress it is really important to read the README file before doing anything. Also when you first run ./configure check that the pluggins that you need will be installed will be (explained in the README). There were many I needed including flac (my library is almost entirely flac!) so you will need to install those including any appropriate libs and devs. Rerun ./configure until all is good to go.
The sound through my M-audio 24/96 Audiophile card is so much improved! The app allows you to upsample 8 to 16bit and 16 to 32bit. Okay it isn't as fancy as Amarok (I'm a KDE fan) but the sound more than makes up for it. ;)
I must stress it is really important to read the README file before doing anything. Also when you first run ./configure check that the pluggins that you need will be installed will be (explained in the README). There were many I needed including flac (my library is almost entirely flac!) so you will need to install those including any appropriate libs and devs. Rerun ./configure until all is good to go.
The sound through my M-audio 24/96 Audiophile card is so much improved! The app allows you to upsample 8 to 16bit and 16 to 32bit. Okay it isn't as fancy as Amarok (I'm a KDE fan) but the sound more than makes up for it. ;)