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Scientific Discussion / Re: Can headroom worsen audio quality due to the masking threshold?
Last post by mosin jack -
That's a really interesting question, Fred — not silly at all. You bring up a subtle but valid point about perceptual coding and how headroom might influence what a codec considers "masked" or less important. While adding headroom generally helps prevent clipping, I suppose in certain cases it could potentially cause quieter elements to fall below the codec's masking threshold. It’s a bit of a trade-off, isn’t it? Would love to hear if anyone has tested this side-by-side with real audio examples.

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foobar2000 mobile / New User - Two Feature requests
Last post by dgersic -
Recently found foobar2000 (v1.6.7) player via a web search looking for something better for IOS. So far, really like it, but of course I have a couple of suggestions I'd like to see to make it better (for me, at least).

1. In "Shuffle All Albums" playback mode, there are buttons for "<<" (previous song), ">" (play), and ">>" (next song). There's not a lot of room in the part of the screen, but I'd like to see "|<<" (previous album) and ">>|" (next album) buttons. I'd happily give up having previous / next song to get previous / next album, since I'm in an album playback mode. I'm much more likely in an "album" playback mode to want the next album (to skip over something my wife likes, for example) than I am to want the next song on the current album.

2. In "Genre", I'd like to have a version of "Shuffle All Albums". I have several genres of music available, and while sometimes I do want to have it play through all albums (shuffle all albums), other times I only want it to play a certain genre, but sill in shuffle albums order.

If that doesn't make sense, consider having Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, and Classical Music albums. By genre, right now, I can play all Classic Rock albums in order, or I can shuffle all albums and randomly switch between genres as it gets to the next album. Sometimes that's ok, other times I'd want to stay within Classic Rock.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Not Recognizing Semi-Colon as Seperator
Last post by ojdo -
Quote from: xsdaver on
After playing around a little more, it appears that on newly entered properties the field is split automatically.  Previously entered fields are not split automatically and have to be done manually.
Yes, this is intentional. Only upon manual tag editing actions (Properties dialog, masstagger actions, and a few auto-tagging components), your files and their tags are "physically" altered. But you can batch-edit/fix as many files as needs in one go, so this should not cause much work.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Fade-in/out DSP
Last post by wcs13 -
oOoOoOohhh, I get it now! Thanks.

I have tried setting the "manual track change" fade-out to something long, say 8000ms, in order to get a slow fade-out.
Unfortunately, what foobar does is:
- Start the fade-out
- At the same time, start the next track (so we hear the two tracks at the same time, which is unwanted)

What I need is:
- Start the fade-out
- End the fade-out
- Only then, start the next track

Any clues?
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Not Recognizing Semi-Colon as Seperator
Last post by xsdaver -
Quote from: Terence on
There's a setting for that in the advanced preferences. You can add the name of your tag to this setting. Then, I believe the semicolon will be recognized as a value separator when saving.
Preferences > Advanced > type "multivalue" in the filter at the top, the setting is "Multivalue fields".
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And you don't need to use Masstagger (anymore). In the track properties window, you can right-click on a tag > Split values...

I tried the Preferences setting and it did not appear to work - I still have labels listed as label1; label2.  Using the split values in properties does work as expected.  I'm on v2.24.3 x64.
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CD Hardware/Software / Re: Nowadays what is the most respectyed way to rip CDs to FLAC?
Last post by Porcus -
WindowsOS considerations: I ripped my entire collection with dBpoweramp (paid "reference" version), but you cannot do much wrong about neither that nor EAC nor CUERIpper except:
* If you want EAC style logs, you cannot use dBpoweramp. But I don't know if you need them if you have the AccurateRip ID that dBpoweramp writes.
* For those pesky pre-emphasis CDs that may or may not flag it properly (properly means both in the TOC and in subcode, but that is not a given in practice), then CUERipper does both, but IIRC the two others don't.
* If you want proper index marks in your cuesheets ... I am not sure. Anyone?

Also, IIRC: CUERipper is not that hard to script by command-line, if that is a concern.

@Feilakas knows Redumper, which rips not only the audio but also subcode. I have no experience with that, but my hunch is that you don't need it if the disc verifies AccurateRip and the others agree it doesn't have pre-emphasis.