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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: Lossless music stores (files!) not offering FLAC, but other lossless compressed?
Last post by Porcus -
Quote from: guruboolez on
Tried with Qobuz on 192 Khz album:
Qobuz claim to support those four you mention, but for CDDA also WMAL: https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/10167-what-are-the-different-audio-formats-available-for-download

Quote from: guruboolez on
I know that the 2L label (classical) also has different exotic options for file delivery:
- MQA
- flac
- mp4 (?)
- mkv
- wav

(the DXD discrete channels WAV 7.1.4 immersive only costs 80€…)
https://shop.2l.no/collections/latest-releases/products/lyden-av-arktis?variant=41448957968567
Dolby Atmos TrueHD is something I don't know. If it is high-channel Atmos (5.1.4/7.1.4/9.1.4) encoded with TrueHD (= MLP), then in the very least they are losslessly compressing more channels than FLAC can handle.
https://shop.2l.no/en-us/collections/dolby-atmos-mp4-files/dolby-atmos-truehd-in-mkv

They deliver that in MKV, as dual stream. The MP4 version of that album seems to be more conventional Dolby Atmos.

If you want to pay $52 extra to get DXD-WAVE in place of that MKV, then maybe Mr. Lindberg will drink something better than Carlsberg for dinner.

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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
This is what I use for WMA. It works without loss.
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I used LossyWAV in the default way. ( LossyWav.exe filename.wav )
If you mean lossless codec HALAC, I have not made any block adaptation. I don't know if this is important in terms of results or not. However, the block size I tested contains 4096 samples and does not deal with Sample Rate.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Nick.C -
Quote from: Hakan Abbas on
I made a few experiments with LossyWAV (I used default setting). I hope the results are not deleted again.
As this is not a thread dedicated to a lossless codec other than your own, and that lossyWAV is designed to be stored in a lossless codec (that makes use of the "wasted bits" feature of FLAC), there's little likelihood of your results being deleted, IMO.

Unexpected that WMA often beats FLAC.

Also please confirm that, where possible, the lossless codec's block size has been set to the appropriate size for lossyWAV output, e.g. 512 for 44.1/48kHz, 1,024 for 88.2/96kHz, etc..
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_scrobble
Last post by Habanero -
For standalone recordings that don't have a track_id (and instead have a recording_id), does Last.fm accept the recording_id? Or is track_id the only valid field it accepts? Would this $if work if it does?

$if(%MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID%,%MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID%,%MUSICBRAINZ RECORDING ID%)
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: Lossless music stores (files!) not offering FLAC, but other lossless compressed?
Last post by guruboolez -
Tried with Qobuz on 192 Khz album:
- flac
- alac
- wav
- aiff
(and also MP3 and AAC)

Same choice for 96KHz album and 44.1 KHz only album.

I also bought a 352KHz/32bit album once in a small label store: it was sent as wav files in a zip archive.

I know that the 2L label (classical) also has different exotic options for file delivery:
- MQA
- flac
- mp4 (?)
- mkv
- wav

(the DXD discrete channels WAV 7.1.4 immersive only costs 80€…)
https://shop.2l.no/collections/latest-releases/products/lyden-av-arktis?variant=41448957968567

Finally, I can also mention nativedsd.com which sells DSD (mostly upsampled) even if source file are PCM:
https://www.nativedsd.com/product/alpha1056-jri-reinvere-ship-of-fools/
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by Treelady -
Quote from: darkflame23 on
Exactly, LUFS-I and PLR are industry standard measurements for perceived loudness of programme material., DR was only ever used by an obsolete component and an obsolete website.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.  MAAT Digital obtained the rights to the DR intellectual property from Pleasaurize and immediately issued the plug-in meter as well as the off line stats generator.  LUFS may be standard, but it fails to accurately represent some genres of music, which is why DR is useful.  Conversely, you can have a record with wildly differing DRs but the LUFSi helps get things consistent for the client, which I'm sure you deal with.

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General - (fb2k) / Re: ReFacets
Last post by alter4 -
Quote from: sc113 on
Quote from: Erich_2 on
Folder:   $directory(%path%,$sub($sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,))),1))
subFolder:  $directory(%path%,$sub($sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,))),2))
next subFolder:  $directory(%path%,$sub($sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,))),3))
and so on...
Works for me
Thanks, but it's not really working for me, as I have several library folders which are located on different discs and have different depth. Whereas the above scripts start counting from the root of the disc for all the folders. I could probably go into reorganising and moving everything to the same levels, but that's not something I want to do now and it's easier for me to keep using the old version until it get fixed (I hope it will be).
Does anybody knows whether Peter has plan to implement native support for that feature? That is what I miss very seriously.