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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
Note: lossyWAV and HALAC don't match. If they match, it would be "lossyHALAC", a new format. 8)

If you compress lossyWAV-encoded files with HALAC, it's stuck in a endless loop, creating a VERY BIG file (in tens/hundreds of MBs/GBs or even TBs until you stop running the program). :P

If you compress normal WAV files with HALAC, it's fine, like how other lossless compressors should do. :D
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by fooball -
ABX might convince himself, but it won't convince anyone else unless samples are published which others can use to verify the ABX results.  The scientific method requires that results are reproducible, and providing samples is a stipulation in TOS8.

But even then, we have no ability to verify the configuration of each test subject, which might not be like for like.  Once we've had an opportunity to review and verify the ABX, we also then have to be able to reproduce the samples.

(When I say "we", I don't mean "me"!)
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Porcus -
It isn't hard to set up two different fb2k versions, mask the identity, and then have a person play from whatever fb2k the coin says. Guess which one. Write it down.
Arguably you should set up three, and always play from "number zero" in between, so that test subject cannot guess from the time it takes to start playback whether it was the same as the previous.
Rinse and repeat a pre-determined number of times. Count up the correct answers. Report here.

That could have been done a long time ago.

And then one could maybe have taken it serious. But not anymore. Someone who has already made up their mind to this degree, why shouldn't they bother to do the test they have so much aversion against, when they can just make up numbers that support their desired conclusion and post those instead?
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by ojdo -
Quote from: Globares on
[...] lack of tangible proof does not mean that hypothesis is false :)
Agreed, but it does not free you from having to bring tangible evidence for your claim as per ToS and a basic "burden of proof" gate. We are basically in a dragon in my garage situation. Without anything to go by, all we can do is ignore the claim. Or never stop looking for all those dragons out there.