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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Wombat -So many builds! So at the end, can anyone recommend a build which should work fine and fast with any CPU made during the past 12 years ?If you don't use vintage windows versions the clang builds of @JoshuaChang don't use fancy CPU extensions or fast-math and are as fast as it gets for that.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by fooball -everyone can quickly make a test installing the second version of Foobar “portably” – 2 Foobar versions can be run parallelly – which should allow you to quickly switch between them.But that wouldn't reproduce what you claim to be hearing. It should only be necessary to capture the output from the PC (not the output from the speakers)... either electrically, or perhaps simply using Audacity to grab the output. If you aren't up for that, then forget trying to convince the powers-that-be you have a valid point.
The principle of ABX is blind testing. If you know what source you're listening to at the time you're listening, then psychological biases are in play and differences can be imagined most convincingly.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by Defender -Great to see new functionality.
Unfortunately total gauge gap calculation with different windows scaling than 100%, 200%, 300% is still bugged and thus bars are calculated and displayed too small.
Did you miss my bug report?
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,125031.msg1043230.html#msg1043230
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: request: 64bit rss reader (for podcasts)
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Gabriel Schwartz -I have not run into this issue, and have not heard of anyone else running into a similar issue during the entire development of foobar2000 2.x. One thing to note is that ASIO tends to bypass Windows Audio Mixer settings, so make sure that the max volume levels for fb2k in the mixer are at the same level (100%) for both installations. Also ensure that you have the latest audio drivers for your system.
If you use ASIO why would you need audio drivers for?
Everything is converted in your DAC specially if you output via USB.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC-git Releases (Code Base v1.4.x)
Last post by itisljar -These binaries are for Linux. They won't work on Windows.
Of course. You didn't do anything, I didn't read properly LOL
Thanks for Windows binaries.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Converting File Bigger Than 4GiB.
Last post by Nick.C -Understood about WAV over pipes and the --ignore-chunk-sizes option found in encoders. I prefer to use piped encoding as it's much faster (and uses up less of the lifetime write of SSDs).
Further checking, by removing lossyWAV from the command line and piping foobar2000 output to command line FLAC, has also ruled out command line FLAC as the culprit. It seems that my --ignore-chunk-sizes option in lossyWAV is not working as intended.
Many thanks again for taking the time to explain foobar2000's piped output and converter options that I had previously missed. Very much appreciated.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Converting File Bigger Than 4GiB.
Last post by Case -In the Converter's 'Other' section there's an option 'Leave partial files for aborted or failed conversions'. Enabling that will stop foobar2000 from deleting the temp files.
So far there hasn't been need to provide option to send anything other than WAVE over pipes, as regular WAV format is the most supported and generally encoders have options to ignore lengths for exactly this purpose.
But if you don't want to work with pipes, the Converter can write Wave64 file directly. Just pick that as the output format and create a temporary file to the disk.