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AAC - Tech / Re: Highest Possible AAC Quality
Last post by Rick Roberts -
Some pretty lively discussion going on here!  I don’t take any offense.  I won’t comment on most of it, other than to say it’s a 2008 Toyota with 130K miles… so who knows.  

The main sense I get out of these discussions is a very grounded and practical view of these codecs, which makes sense.  But going back to my first post… when not limited to storage space and with the low cost of large USB drives today in 2025, it can also be asked, why not go with max AAC settings (or better yet, flac when it supports it and file formats like exFAT or NTFS)?  The only downside is the number of songs you can fit, which even for my fat32 USB, still got me a happy ~3,000 songs that are as close as lossless as possible and give me the admittedly dumb, but satisfying feeling, I’m feeding it the very best input I can.  Conversely, the CD-R disc example is where the storage space is much more limiting, and I fully appreciate the advice of using Lame mp3 VBR at much more moderate bitrates (if the vehicle lasts much longer  :) ). 
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General Audio / Re: Do you know how this effect is made?
Last post by itisljar -
Oh, to answer myself, and for anyone curious, I've managed to recreate the effect - it's phasing.
I've rotated phase of left channel by -90 dB, and it placed bass drum and bassline effect of original version that I have at almost the same place in panorama. I did it with iZotope Editor. Audacity doesn't have that kind of plugin.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Opus conversion failure (Code -1073741502)
Last post by Viper21 -
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Yeah, seems I was a bit hasty with my "problem solved". I momentarily forgot that when I was playing around with the custom decoder settings, I had set the path to some old opusenc.exe file (libopus 1.3, libopusenc 0.2.1) that was in the installation directory of an old version of dbPoweramp which I never got around to paying for an update. So that old one seems to be working but not the one in the f2K folder.

When  I set the custom decoder path back to the encoder from the Free Encoder Pack in the f2K installation folder, it fails again. Back to square one. I am completely stumped.
1.  Delete any "opusenc.exe" in Foobar/encoders or elsewhere
2.  Re-install the Free Encoder Pack and don't change any paths; point the Destination Folder to your main Foobar2000 folder which should be already entered by default
3.  Right-click a FLAC playlist file and choose Convert->quick convert
4.  From the Quick Convert list, choose Opus and hit the "edit" button below
5.  In the Preset dialog that comes up, move the slider/drop boxes to the values you want, hit "OK", then "Convert"
6.  Pick where you want the file saved to and hit "Save"--the conversion to Opus will proceed.

If this works fine, you know you have a good opusenc.exe.  If you still want to change converter paths, add options, etc those results are on you.

Ran through all the steps to the letter... same problem as before: "An error occurred while writing to file (The encoder has terminated prematurely with code -1073741502 (0xC0000142); please re-check parameters)".

By the way, before I started tweaking and changing paths, my f2k installation was brand new and installed to the default paths, including the Free Encoder Pack.
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General Audio / Re: Do you know how this effect is made?
Last post by bryant -
Panning can be implemented with levels, and I think this is way most (if not all) mixing consoles do it.

However, it's possible to create a panning effect with inter-channel delay also, even with the levels identical. The reason this creates a panned mage, especially in headphones, is it simulates the arrival delay to our ears (i.e., sounds to the left arrive at the left ear first).

So it's possible to create a fully panned stereo image with identical levels in the two channels. Now, what software did (or does) that, I have no idea.
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General Audio / Re: Live stream format with proper metadata & embededd album covers
Last post by Peter -
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Ogg FLAC
Live metadata capability missing, libFLAC won't decode concatenated Ogg FLAC files with new metadata.
Actually, this functionality has been added with FLAC 1.5.0. Along with multithreading, this was the other major new feature.
Thanks, verified working with new methods, updated original post.
Ogg FLAC looks like the most promising option so far.
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General Audio / Do you know how this effect is made?
Last post by itisljar -
Hello all!

For years, I've been troubling myself with how this track exists. The song is "Dildo" by Interactive, it's early techno, and it's part of the mix, so this is that exact sequence from the mixed CD, it lasts minute and few seconds.

What always interested me is how this stereo effect is created. For best experience, use headphones, play the song, watch peak and vu meters. You'll notice that bass drum, bassline and synth seem panned to the left, yet there is power in both channels. Later on, they sort of return to the center of panorama. But first half, they're to the left, and all logic dictates that peak meters should be mostly left channel going to full, with some power to the right channel, but no, they are both pumping.

What effect does this? Can I recreate it with any song? I've heard it few times with various songs, but this one stuck :)