by Jerm » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:53 pm
Okay wait. I was incorrect in the previous post.
Metro does write this file type internally and is writing it incorrectly on intel machines. This is fixed in 6.4.7.1. Metro was not endian swapping correctly (only for that file type) so it will work fine on PPC machines but on intel machines you will get white noise. It is still true that the 32 bit floating point is faster, since that is what CoreAudio uses internally and so there is no need to convert between the file format and what is sent to the Macintosh audio system software.
Thank you for finding this.