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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer

Last post by Nightyb - Today at 03:27

Does anyone have a preset that exactly matches the behaviour of the built-in Spectrum?

edit: 32bit

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer

Last post by TF3RDL - Today at 01:53

Quote from: Kronzky on 2024-10-04 18:07:37

It seem TF3RDL has scared off the original developer so much that we'll have to look elsewhere now...

Hence, the reason why I've made a separate thread dedicated for feature requests for this component

I hope @Crossover doing well without any adverse mental health effects coming from my doings (e.g. a fanon wiki page about a supposed future version of this) that supposedly "scared" him off

Support - (fb2k) / MOVED: Can't I change the font size of my playlist on Mac?

Last post by korth - Today at 00:41

This topic has been moved to the discussion and support board for foobar2000 for Mac - https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=126719.0

Audio Hardware / Re: Isthere any new 5.1 channel amplifier with Dolby and dts without speakers.

Last post by Apesbrain - Today at 00:29

Those "square" plugs at the end of your speaker wires are Sony proprietary and meant to make it easy to plug them into the main unit. If you remove the plastic plugs, the bare wires can connect to any standard amplifier.

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/-ddnqr3o3kM

As for the "round holes", you need to look up "5-way binding posts" and understand how they work. They will accept any bare wire.

I don't think your LG DVD player has any use with this Sony.

foobar2000 for Mac / Can't I change the font size of my playlist on Mac?

Last post by hello927 - Today at 00:24

I've been using it well on Windows, but I've also been using it on Macs recently.
But Macs can't increase the font size of the playlist.
If there's a way, could you please let me know?

MP3 - Tech / Re: Current status of MP3 encoders

Last post by a.ok.in - 2024-10-04 23:50:50

AFAIK, currently there's nothing serious to do with MP3. I think it could be even better to work in Musepack or Opus instead.
(but actually no idea of nothing )

Okay no. But I'm not sure of how far we can go. There's Vorbis and AAC. Different settings and encoders give different results, but actually there isn't one that provides an incredible increase of quality.

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: TagBox Tag Editing Plugin

Last post by dix-hill - 2024-10-04 22:25:02

@el-jaguar
How did you fix your "Values Currently in Database" problem?
I'm using the panel, I have a Media Library, and auto-complete in a field does not work for me either.
Tagbox 0.221

MP3 - Tech / Current status of MP3 encoders

Last post by btc - 2024-10-04 22:23:51

Hi.

I found the results of this public test interesting. https://listening-tests.hydrogenaud.io/sebastian/mp3-128-1/results.htm
The test is dated but MP3 encoders haven't changed much since then.

Different MP3 encoders perform better on different type of music, different type of signals:
Helix is good at electronic music, sharp transients and good portion of instrumentals.
LAME 3.97 is good on rock and metal (where Helix doesn't perform well)
Fraunhofer is good at voice & singing parts.

These encoders keep high quality while not jumping that much in bitrate, so it's not just bumping bitrate over all samples, but being smart on VBR algorithms and increasing bitrates where it is only required

It's a good indicator that there is still room to improve MP3. How much? I would estimated it as equivalent to 15% of bitrate gain at 130-145 kbps, V5-V4 settings, looking at performance of different encoders from that public test. It's been a long time and developers now have more tools to make a better encoders ( like better metrics to measure audio quality, faster hardware etc.)
Look at JPEG, modern encoders of old format as Guetzli squeezes extra 10-20% of quality using more advanced and complex psychovisual model.

Does anybody know if there is active development of any MP3 encoder? There were some changes for Helix encoder this year but it's related to usability not quality. LAME 3.99 is faster than 3.98 but pretty the same in terms of quality. And LAME 3.100/3.101 didn't bring any quality improvements.

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_dsp_effect

Last post by mudlord - 2024-10-04 21:59:32

Good ideas, I had a recent peek at the Winamp source code, and even the EQ might be "amusing" to port. I seen your previous requests and the IIR stuff seems it could still be worked on. As well as some more weird filters, like a resample+bitcrush+noise filter. A pitch shifter using David Bryant's stuff might be nice to prototype, at least then I can submit that for the mobile ports of FB2K for DEATH to look at, like he did for reverb and echo on mobile/Mac.

No ETA on anything, though. I do visit this place, tho lately I been coding on all sorts of personal things lately, like my personal Linux/ARM/Windows replacement to RetroArch which is more Snes9x style in terms of UI, and has a GPU accelerated UI.

Polls / Re: 2024 Lossy format poll

Last post by btc - 2024-10-04 21:36:43

Quote from: rubiconlexicon on 2024-09-19 07:24:03

JPEG has newer better encoders like Jpegli giving it some new life so not surprising to see it sticking around still.

Yes, Google, Mozilla and internet community are taking care of JPEG format.
First Mozilla has published mozjpeg, and now JPEG-XL and Google developers have improved JPEG efficiency further with jpegli. Also there is high bitrate JPEG encoder guetzli.

MP3 in contrary is abandoned. LAME, Helix, FhG mp3 encoders are no longer under development.
If JPEG was improved after 30 years, why MP3 can't be? https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,126718.msg1051711/topicseen.html#new

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