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Support - (fb2k) / Converting File Bigger Than 4GiB.
Last post by Nick.C -I'm trying to convert a large FLAC file (a bit over two hours of 24/96 stereo) to lossyFLAC in foobar2000 (v1.6.13) using piped output from foobar2000 to a command line encoder piping output to flac.exe and I experience a failure with the following message:
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1 out of 1 files converted with major problems.Dumping chunk sizes from the piped data I get:
Source: "H:\Test\Test.flac"
An error occurred while finalizing the encoding process (Object not found) : "H:\Test\lossyFLAC\Test.flac"
Conversion failed: Object not found
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RIFF; -1Noting that command line FLAC terminates with the following error:
fmt ; 16
data; -1
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Test.flac: ERROR: stream is too big to fit in a single WAVE fileI'm wondering if there's anything I'm missing with regard to how files with an uncompressed size of over 4GiB are handled by foobar2000.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by pqyt -* New: Left/Right and Mid/Side level meter.
* The left/right channel pair is selectable.
* Spectogram
* New: Vertical scrolling and static spectogram. A special setting is available to align the spectogram with a spectrum bars visualization over or under the spectogram.
* Improved: Overall polishing and removal of glitches.
* Added: Separate peak and RMS level read outs to the peak meter.
* Fixed: An old color bug in the owner-drawn menu list.
You can only download it from GitHub until the final release.
I'd appreciate any (constructive) feedback about the implementation of the balance and correlation meter and the vertical spectogram.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -...it's also worth noting that the benefit of ASIO is decreased audio latency, not increased sound quality. If there is a degradation in sound quality with ASIO output, it is either a driver issue or something else in the audio pipeline that is causing an issue.The ASIO drivers "sound" better, it doesn't mean that the bits are different - I assume that both pipelines are "bit-perfect", but latency, jitter or generally timing is crucial for spatial effect, i.e. the soundstage. They also impact other sound parameters. Windows Audio Mixer is to be avoided. It degrades the sound quality; "exclusive mode" improves things when properly implemented. Generally, no upsampling is much better than a bad one.
The v1 v2 difference is not big, so the question is how may people did A/B comparisons and what did they listen to. Acoustic songs are the best for this. Busy, rock tracks masks this issue, too. Is this Windows-only problem? I have no iOS to test it.
I’ve got no big hopes for a fix. Real-time stream profiling is a tedious task and first a developer (or the Developer 😊, don’t know if there’s a team), needs to reproduce the problem, however there’s a small chance that this “problem report” will trigger some ideas about changes in the data stream processing that could negatively affect the jitter when compared to version 1.X. We’ll see.
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foobar2000 mobile / Re: [Feature Request] Add reverb to the DSP manager
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -Since there is still no updated decoder DLL I sandboxed the process and added support for 32-bit foobar2000 while at it. Since the DLLs are only 64-bit the 32-bit component won't be able to decode anything unless the OS is also 64-bit.Thank you very much for your interest in the topic and for what you have done. You are great.
And I listed the component on my component page: https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_input_halac
I have uploaded the 32-bit compiled versions of the Encoder and Decoder from version 0.2.7 to Github as SSE2 and AVX. The 32-bit version may experience slightly loss of speed during the Encode stage.
I'm trying to prepare the things I get notes for the 0.2.8 DLL version (Windows/Linux). And since the DLL will be independent of the file and the file path, Player will now have multiple language support.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -Not really my place to say, but there's a big no-no against sound quality claims without substantive proof. How about uploading 30s samples demonstrating your point, so that other ears can do an ABX?Unfortunately, I’ve got no high quality microphones nor the ears audio model to make such recording, but 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. Just make sure to use a decent DAC and heaphones to hear the soundstage changes.
A portable installation of Foobar2000 can be easily removed when not needed.
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