Core audio and sample rate conversion

I would like to know how to take manual control over core audio regarding sample rate destruct... er conversion. First - I know the workarounds - simply closing the audio player of choice, resetting the external hardware and relaunching the audio player of choice.
setup:
I run external converters with an external sample rate clock source. No problems or issues here. I keep my music collection segregated by SR (96k, 88.2k, 48k, 44.1k) as I ALWAYS listen through external converters.
The annoyance is when one forgets to keep track of core audio and inadvertently ends up listen to a piece of music sample rate destructed. You know - walk up to music server computer, forget that you had DAC set to 44.1k for last music played, put on 96k source, SRC takes over and you don't notice the artifacts and distortion for a few songs. No one wants that! Don't get me wrong - it's a convenient feature and the amateur user would be sunk without it.
What I want is an indicator that will tell when SRC is turned on and further, what the input and output sample rates are (as far as core audio is able to determine from the hardware anyway). In my world this would have been a check box in a preference setting. Perhaps someone has written a script or app for this? Command line instruction?
Thanks

Start with http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MusicAudio/Conceptual/CoreAudioOverview /Introduction/Introduction.html and direct further queries to the developer forums under OS X Technologies.

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