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From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdspm: native float
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:41:59 +0100
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Florian Faber wrote:

> > > It is a global change. The only use case is for jack, and jack doesn't
> > > use different formats for input/output.
> > "Using aplay + arecord" is a second use case.  :-)

> And they would willingly choose different formats?

A moderately common case is recording voice quality audio (at 8kHz or
so) and playing back higher quality audio.