High Definition Compatible Digital - Hydrogenaudio KnowledgebaseHDCD was (mostly) a scam, but thousands of popular CDs released from 1995-present have this encoding. (List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs) Do not batch-convert your lossless audio to 24-bit. Leave your lossless CD rips 16-bit and use an audio player capable of decoding HDCD, like Foobar2000. High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a Microsoft proprietary audio encode-decode process that cla
