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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder

Last post by Replica9000 - Today at 15:04

I thought ^C was baked into the OS (at least with Linux/Unix OSes) and would interrupt any process. I also never expect it to leave the output in a clean state.

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MP3 - Tech / Did Lame 3.99 cause CBR degradation?

Last post by fred-hy - Today at 15:02

I prefer Lame 3.98.4 over later versions as I find that it introduces less artifacting to my ears at 128kbps CBR (Haven't ABX'd though)

I've recently looked through the Lame changelogs and it says that version 3.99 made all modes use the same psychoacoustic algo as VBR New, due to one user's sample that sounded garbled in CBR and -q3.

Has anyone done an ABX to confirm that the sound quality is any different?

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Support - (fb2k) / Re: foobar2000 for Mac: bugs & wishes

Last post by Peter - Today at 14:56

Today's build addresses quite a few things.
It's still work-in-progress, but stuff that's included works quite well, including the whole of toolbar items.

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foobar2000 mobile / Re: [Feature Request] Add reverb to the DSP manager

Last post by Peter - Today at 14:54

Reverb code from foo_dsp_effect has been added in today's foobar2000 for Android build.

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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Playlists Get Zero'd Out After a Library Search

Last post by Peter - Today at 14:53

Thanks for reporting.
Issue should be fixed in today's preview build: behavior of enter key has been altered for the scenario where library viewer selection playlist is in use.

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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder

Last post by Case - Today at 14:46

Very good, should improve performance with all Windows compiles.

Now that we discussed about invalid file state with interrupted encoding I noticed that the Xing header isn't correct in that case. Here's a patch for dev branch to fix that.

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Support - (fb2k) / Failed to load DLL; Not a valid Win32 application.

Last post by Aiki - Today at 14:41

I have this message : I have this message : Failed to load DLL: foo_httpcontrol.dll
Reason: Not a valid Win32 application.

Failed to load DLL: foo_playcount.dll
Reason: Not a valid Win32 application.

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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder

Last post by Replica9000 - Today at 14:38

The dev version is slightly, but consistently faster on my Linux machine.
CPU: Ryzen 5850U
WAV: 1h 43m

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./hmp3_main -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 13.018s
./hmp3_main -D -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.914s
./hmp3_dev -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.609s
./hmp3_dev -D -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.519s

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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: Tested: Lossless decoding speed, multithreaded - and fast verification

Last post by mycroft - Today at 14:36

Ever heard of doing actual benchmark via perf or any other professional and advanced tool?

It will show where most CPU time is wasted in binary when executing some operations.

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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)

Last post by Case - Today at 14:26

That is what I warned about. The error handling leaves a lot to be desired and causes the host program to crash too. The demo HALAC Player crashes similarly. And the 0.2.7 decoder exe fails to decode the file too, creates a zero byte wav file.

If this was a final piece of decoder library with no hope of getting improvements, I could isolate it in a different process. But I hope things will improve so that such drastic measurements aren't necessary. The isolation layer adds more complexity and also introduces performance penalty.

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