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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by ktf -
Last time I checked (which is a while ago) difference was about 30%, which I don't think is extraordinary. There are lots of reasons for 64-bit compiles to be faster. 64-bit mode on x86 has double the number of registers for SIMD (SSE, AVX etc), it can do 64-bit math twice as fast, and SSE2 is standard, whereas 32-bit compiles don't use SSE2 throughout the whole program (only when explicitly coded) for compatibility reasons.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by aelklirion -
If I'm using folder tags, change a file's external tags from foobar and save them, but later realize I made a mistake with the file name and rename it from Windows Explorer, can I open the .tag file with a text editor and change the file name reference in it to the new one so that the external tags are associated with the renamed file? Cause I did it and it seems to have worked, but I just want to be sure this is intended use and I'm not breaking something that I can't see.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -
Quote from: jarsonic on
A note:  you can load both tracks into fb2k (either v1 or v2), select both, right click, Utilities > ABX tracks and you can do a ABX blind test to see if you can actually tell the difference between the two tracks. Please consider doing this and posting your ABX results!
These samples are too close. Actually I downloaded the ABX utility to check if the "limiter" feature of it would help (it allows to play just a short piece and quickly switch between the samples), but no. I wonder if the author of the recordings can tell the difference listening on his own system. It doesn't mean that my original statement regarding the v1/v2 differences is false! I'm confident since the difference is too big for placebo effect.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
This has probably been well covered over the last nearly-nineteen pages, but:
Is there any particular reason why 64-bit flac.exe should be so much faster than 32-bit?
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
Quote from: MihaiPopa12346 on
Could you release a new version with a "-high" argument which gets a bit higher compression ratio than default but 25-50% slower compression and decompression speed?
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The graph above shows the change of compression ratio since the first version of HALAC. HALAC is a speed-oriented study and the last thing I want to compromise on speed is. The lossless compression rate of audio data is really limited in most cases.

SQUEEZE CHART is an archive that also contains different types of music used in audio compression tests. It gives an idea in a general sense. Since the first version, there has been an improvement of about 1% in the compression ratio at the same speeds (encode has been slightly faster). At extremely high speeds, this is really not bad. Depending on the current situation, it is a little difficult to predict how much further progress can be made.

HIGH mode has been requested from different people before. I will focus on the compression ratio in later versions. Because I've already mentioned that there is a little more space in this regard.

I started to get interested in the compression ratio with version 0.2.6. However, I had to enter the Player and DLL topic in accordance with the incoming requests. Now, as soon as I have time, I am trying to complete the new dynamic library I have developed for HALAC in a flexible and error-free way. Changes are also made to the file structure and working style in accordance with incoming requests.