Sound card doesn't support 96khz playback/decoding?

Question

I have some FLAC audio files that are in a 24-bit, 96khz sample rate. When I play them as FLACs in Winamp, they play, but with a hiss (someone told me they play because Winamp has the ability to down sample them back into 44khz; yet Winamp still says it's in 96khz.) When I converted them to WAV or MP3, they 'play' but with no sound. I opened the converted files in Sound Forge and discovered there's no data in the files, hence the silence I suppose. No data from the FLACs was decoded and converted in WAV/MP3 (still at sample rates of 96khz.) Why?   Is the reason no data was decoded/converted because my sound card doesn't support playback or decoding of a sample rate above, say, 48 or 44.1khz? My sound card can't 'read' the 96khz data in the FLACs and thus decodes and converts emptiness into a file?   I'm on a message board where everyone else can play the files. Is that to say they all have a computer newer than mine? Mine's only 3 years old (yes, old in computer years, but still.) They all have sound cards that can playback 96khz? I don't understand why there's no playback.   Dell XPS 400 Windows XP SP3 Soundblaster Audigy Advanced MB audio.

fireberd · Answer

First, you sound card is not the Soundblaster Audigy Advanced MB, that is ONLY a software enhancement to the Integrated Audio (on the motherboard).

I have an old Audigy 2 sound card (at least 6 years old) and it supports that 96Khz mode and your integrated audio will play them, as long as you have a media player that will decode and play them.

See if the info in THIS link helps to play the files

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