On 18/06/2012 16:23, Jim Lesurf wrote:

AIUI MicroSoft took his code and say they put it into their software
players. But they bought the HDCD Patents. I have my doubts they actually
know or care about the details beyond it being another 'feature' they can
offer.

It's a while since I looked at it but I thought Windows Media Player
would decode HDCD if you have a 24-bit sound card.
WMP11 on my laptop shows 'HDCD' in the bottom left corner when playing
an HDCD.

And I thought there were programs available that could intercept data
going to a soundcard and copy it to a file,
though whether these work in 24-bit I don't know.

--
Eiron.