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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Kraeved -@Klymins You came to the audiophile forum for advice on how to solve the problem of audio compression. This means that you do not have enough personal knowledge to solve it. People who know how to solve such problems spent a lot of time and came to the conclusion that there were very few solutions, then they offered the optimal one.
This command creates an audio file that meets the specifications, users can listen to it even in the browser and it can be used with Flash. Instead of being satisfied with it, you continue to bend your will and demand attention to increasingly bizarre requirements, trying to achieve what is impossible with MP3.
After all, if you're looking for a way to be smarter than established audio encoders and reshape their audio output to your whims, you need a hacker forum. And here your persistence has already grown into annoying stubbornness.
Finally, it makes sense to try the latest version of LAME (today it is 3.101 beta 3) and compare the sound.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: played queue history/log
Last post by jurzystas -If a track is shorter than one minute, you have to listen to all of it for it to count. There are no settings to change behaviour.OK, thanks !
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Klymins -Addition: I was already sure there is some interesting stuff as foobar2000 says it's 24kbps and it's shorter than actually it is, and i was thinked it is 24kbps at first, but these are still not a reason for me to say it's VBR or ABR per above.
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MP3 - Tech / Re: libmp3lame 3.99.5 for Audacity
Last post by korth -https://www.rarewares.org/files/mp3/libmp3lame-3.99.5x64.zip (2012)
https://www.rarewares.org/files/mp3/libmp3lame-3.99.5x86.zip (2012)
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -Dear @maikmerten, is it possible to compile Helix binaries automatically for x86 and x64 (two separate archives) on Github when the version is bumped, or could you update the front page by adding links to RareWares (downloads) and HA Wiki (documentation)?
Yeah, I probably should link to the Wiki documentation and then point to a proper download location for Windows builds. I'd of course like RandomWares to be the official download location, if john agrees.
As to building the Windows binaries, I think perhaps we should find out which builds work best and how they are generated. I'm a Linux guy and am hesitant to weigh in too much on Windows things, but am hopeful that it may become apparent what works best on Windows.
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MP3 - Tech / libmp3lame 3.99.5 for Audacity
Last post by Protoss77 -I am looking for libmp3lame.dll v.3.99.5 compatible with Audacity v3.4.2 , the built-in encoder is 3.100
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General - (fb2k) / error reading (CUI?) configuration file
Last post by Phillight -I found a folder in ProgramFiles and one in AppData\Roaming.
I copied both of them over and tried to launch it, receiving this error message:
Error reading configuration file (Corrupted configuration file). If you choose to ignore, configuration data may be irreversibly lost.
So. I've been trying ever since to isolate the issue and have found that it must be the foo_ui_columns.dll.cfg . If I don't copy that one, the program launches.
So the question is how can I still use it? I would like to not do all that work again to set up columns UI
does anyone have any idea as to what I could do?
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by KevinB52379 -I tried this version (I know it's one of the original Helix versions) but I was curious to see hwo this 64 bit version worked.
I did the test from my SSD and got 1300x to 1800x.
So what is different between Case's build, this old version and all newer compiles?
I believe I got that version of Helix from Rarewares or ReallyRareWares.
OK I tried copying my FLACS to the internal SSD and tried converting with foobar2000 from there.
I still average about 220x to 300x using your slow compile 64 bit version of Helix.
Same speeds I got when converting from external hard drive...so I don't think USB is the issue.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Unexpected audio format change - strange output files created
Last post by cliveb -Thanks for the bug report.Ok thanks. I now understand why it all goes pear-shaped.
Main problem is that "no DSP reset" mode treats all input as one audio stream and partitions output back into tracks, making use of original track lengths + reported DSP latency. After something failed in the middle, the output no longer really makes sense and the conversion goes off the rails, precisely as you've observed.
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I think you want to convert each album as a separate batch.That makes sense, except this was a fresh transcode of my entire library, so doing it all in one go was much easier. The reason for the fresh transcode was because previously (without the "no DSP reset") I had too many instances of little glitches at the boundaries of tracks that ran into one another (eg. things like Dark Side Of The Moon, Beethoven Symphony 5, etc).
My library is nearly all 44.1kHz, with just a small smattering of 48kHz albums (typically ripped from DVDs).
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Also, why not just resample everything to a fixed rate before doing any other DSP?Yes, good idea. I frankly didn't even remember I had some 48kHz albums until I Googled what the error message actually meant.