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Last post by fred-hy -
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?
Last post by Peter -
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.
Last post by Peter -
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.
Last post by Case -
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.
Last post by Case -
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.