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Also, a question: Maybe "TSAC" is named fully as "Transformer Audio Codec" because it uses a transformer model to shrink even more while keeping the quality high?
I compressed a 16-second clip of a song: "Vluarr - They Don't Know" to TSAC @ 3 kbps (setting: -q 5, file size: 6.1 KB) using a Intel i5-4460 CPU (was a pain on compression speed because I don't have a Nvidia GPU, but it worked OK).
Full command line:
E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64>tsac -m E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64\dac_stereo_q8.bin -M E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64\tsac_stereo_q8.bin -q 5 c "C:\Users\Public\New folder (14)\New folder (2)\New folder (2)\y2mate.com - Vluarr They Dont Know_44k_s_flac_16sec.wav" "C:\Users\Public\New folder (14)\New folder (2)\New folder (2)\output_q5.tsac"
E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64>tsac -m E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64\dac_stereo_q8.bin -M E:\tsac-2024-04-08-win64\tsac_stereo_q8.bin d "C:\Users\Public\New folder (14)\New folder (2)\New folder (2)\output_q5.tsac" "C:\Users\Public\New folder (14)\New folder (2)\New folder (2)\output_q5.wav"
Please check input and output (compressed as FLAC, because it fits within the 30 MB of files per post limit for the forum). ABX them, and listen them carefully. Post the results when done!
Also attached: TSAC version of the output.