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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
Quote from: Hakan Abbas on
Quote from: MihaiPopa12346 on
Post the new version [0.2.8 maybe] of the encoder and decoder with lossyWAV support (lossyHALAC output format).
I can't make any firm promises for 0.2.8, but I might add LossyWAV support for the next version. And since a special work will be required for an option such as "LossyHALAC", I can think about this topic later.
How did you do lossyHALAC in this image: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=30749;image?
Maybe with correct block size in lossyWAV, we could achieve lossyHALAC. With the default block size, it's not working correctly.  ???
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MP3 - Tech / It's just me, or did MP3enc 3.1 sound better than LAME 3.97?
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
It's just me, or did MP3enc 3.1 (by Fraunhofer) sound better than LAME 3.97?
For this, I made a 15-second snippet of "Afrowell" by StephanAXX, encoded to MP3 using MP3enc and LAME and listened.
MP3enc beats LAME (at quality) at encoding to narrowband (8 kbps, 8 kHz, mono) while still keeping the bandwidth at maximum setting.
About the same at encoding to wideband (16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono).
Commands:
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mp3enc -if C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav -br 16000-esr 16000 -dm -bw 16000 -qual 9 -of "C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\afrowell.mp3"
mp3enc -if C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav -br 8000 -esr 8000 -dm -bw 8000 -qual 9 -of "C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\afrowell_8k.mp3"
lame -q 0 -k -b 16k -mm --resample 16k C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav C:\Users\Stefan\afrowell_lame.mp3
lame -q 0 -k -b 8k -mm --resample 8k C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav C:\Users\Stefan\afrowell_lame_8k.mp3
File sizes:
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14.976 afrowell_lame_8k.mp3
15.336 afrowell_8k.mp3
30.024 afrowell_lame.mp3
30.240 afrowell.mp3
2.880.122 afrowell.wav
All files attached. Tell you your results (with these attached files or different files, by ABXing, listening and other tests)! Thanks for reading this topic!
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General Audio / Re: Album Art Downloader XUI
Last post by bigi -
Got to say I love this app Alex!  i have a ridiculous amount of digital music and am working my way through tagging and sorting at the moment; your app is saving me a lot of hassle!
I have a few questions and suggestions....
1. Is there a way to allow the app to check for the presence of different artwork files in the album/single folders?  for example, some of my collection have not got artwork embedded in the mp3/flac files, but have a file in the format <artist>-<title>.jpg in the folder instead, which it doesn't appear to be picking up.
2. This query is about the search logic - if a single or album artist includes "feat" or multiple artists, it fails to find a result - if i change the artist name to "," between artist names, it seems to work.  is there a way to make it handle this better?
3. Options Settings on artwork search - even when i update the option on a window to say close after selecting artwork, it still reverts back - is there a way i can hardcode the config anywhere or make this work?
4. also in the artwork search window, would it be possible to change the order the artwork is searched for from various sources?  A lot of my music is beatport for instance, but other sources find these matches as well sometimes; it would be great to be able to search these resources before other more extensive ones (like allcdcovers etc)
5. on a final note - beatport doesn't appear to be returning any results at the moment.....is it possible you could look at it?






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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Porcus -
N00b question (again!)
1.4.3c  and flac.exe 1.4.3, is the latter supposed to return
WARNING: RIFF chunk size of file file.lossy.wav does not agree with filesize
file.lossy.wav: ERROR reading foreign metadata: invalid WAVE file: unexpected EOF (010)
?
Edit: OptimFROG also rejects. WavPack and TAK are happy about it.


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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner
Last post by ngs428 -
This component reports several values.  I am trying to understand what they all mean and how I can use them. I am familiar with RG and DR values, rest is new and trying to learn.  Searching has been hit and miss.  I tried to explain some of what I a using for definitions below.  Ultimately I want to understand how I can apply the values and what are "good" vs "bad" values.  Assistance would be appreciated.  Thanks! 

  • Track and Album Peak- This is the common RG value. Can be used to prevent gain adjustments from inducing clipping in the playback device
  • Track and Album Gain - This is the common RG value in dB.  ReplayGain-capable audio players use the replay gain metadata to automatically attenuate or amplify the signal on a per-track or per-album basis such that tracks or albums play at a similar loudness level
  • Track and Album LRA - Loudness Range in Loudness Units (LU).  Measures the variation of loudness across a song or album.  LRA values can show whether a song has a continuously constant loudness (low LRA values) or a high variation between low and high level components (high LRA values)
  • Track and Album Max LUFS-M - Momentary (0.4 seconds?) measurement, as opposed to "I" which is the whole song
  • Track and Album Max LUFS-S - Short Term (3 seconds?) measurement, as opposed to "I" which is the whole song
  • Track and Album LUFS-I - Similar to RG.  Measures the entire song.  How can I apply this value to normalize song's loudness levels?  When I use Case's ReplayGain DSP, does it use this value?  I can pick a loudness target of -14 LUFS, -18 LUFS, etc, but that is just the target.  What value is is using to match the target?  Is it still using the track and album gain or is it actually using the LUFS-I value, or does it matter?
  • Track and Album DR - The distance in dB between the softest sound and the loudest sound.
  • Track and Album Clipped Samples - Any sample value that is beyond digital fullscale.  One clipping sample means that only one channel clipped. If same spot clipped on all channels of a 384 channel recording, it would be shown as 384 clipped samples.
  • Peak Timestamp - Time in track which contains the highest peak value.