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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar seems to ignore LFE channel.
Last post by mzso -
Quote from: Case on
Your output has always been stereo if Windows mixer says you have stereo speakers.
I see. Well, I set it to 7.1 and now LFE is heard with all outputs. Weird to have so little control over this in Foobar, and even less ability to tell what is happening. IMO it's also strange that LFE is excluded from downmixing. Well, et least it made me realize some of my configuration needed changing.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by jaro1 -
Quote from: Wombat on
Maybe GCC 14 has changed something. @KevinB52379 may check the binary compiled with MINGW/GCC 14.1.0 i attached.

Thank you for the binary, i suppose it is generic build without "fast math" code. I do not want to compare here apples with oranges, but after trying the latest generic flac binaries from NetRanger (GCC14.1 & Clang18.1.4), the Clang version gives me consistently faster results for files 16-24/44 against GCC14.1 (5-8% speedup with Intel 8.gen CPU). I do not want to speculate about the reason, as i didn't done that much tests with various builds, so maybe Clang is rather constant through different versions, while GCC14.1 slowed down the performance slightly because of more complex changes..?
Can you please compile a generic Clang 18.1.4 binary of hmp3 with latest source code changes as well?     
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Playlist-Tools-SMP
Last post by regor -
Your question has nothing to do with SMP or these scripts, so I would recommend you to open a new thread at the suppor forum and ask there for help. It seems you only need tagging multiple tracks with specific values, so I would say the masstagger component would help you there (which can be bound to a key shortcut).
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by Case -
I did some improvements to my DR Meter implementation, download updated version from https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_dr_meter.

I added the extra info the official component displayed to the result dialog too (per-channel DR, RMS and peak).
And I did some improvements / fixes to the DR value calculation. Turns out the official component reverts to using highest peak when the second highest peak they tell you to use is too low. I saw this causing issues with short and very quiet test signals.
The result dialog also has the dark mode improvement marc2k3 mentioned.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression
Last post by neoOpus -
I had an idea, but I'm unsure if it's a viable solution to improve things further. What if we use a lossy codec with a proven track record to compress audio files, then compare the result with the original and extract the differences? We could then encode these differences using a codec like this to achieve a sort of lossless quality while reducing the required resource requirements and compression time associated with computationally heavy codecs like this one. I'm curious to know if this hybrid approach could lead to a versatile solution that offers the best of both worlds.