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General - (fb2k) / Re: New VST adapter for foobar2000
Last post by Orion33 -
There is no way to directly edit numeric values in the Q-4 FabFilter. I double click and the edit box opens, but the keyboard does not work. At the same time I can cut and paste with the mouse through the context menu.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Crossmix DSP (foo_dsp_crossmix)
Last post by thevudia14 -
Hi Case, just want to get acknowledgement from you if there is a problem you see here. If so, can you please work on this fix?
Another want is to increase the threshold from -20dB to -10 or -5dB. It's closed source, so I am requesting you. Thanks
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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: Design improvements from a professional UX Designer and foobar2000 fan
Last post by backslash -
I understood what you meant with the progress bar in conjunction with the cover art but it's against the component/design guidelines. Makes no sense to bend existing components. And it looks better with some space around the covert art. An increased height of the bottom bar doesn't matter with nowadays resolutions. Let things breath a bit. This is also why things look so clean as you mentioned. Otherwise things will become quite cramped quickly. And things will of course evolve over time. This is still work in progress...

- The side bar makes complete sense because it solves a lot of issues with the current approach
- Album name next to the library filter makes no sense because it's the library view and not the playlist. Album name etc. will be shown in the playlist and in the bottom bar.
- The respective playlist name will/should of course be shown in the playlist header. In the design it's the default/current playlist and not some custom playlist. At least in the classic flow.
- Shuffle and repeat are two very different things. Makes no sense to mash those things together. UX common sense... Try finding a distinct icon for shuffle AND repeat which is self explanatory. There is a reason why you will have a hard time finding one. And a dropdown which states "default" in it's initial state is not a good solution. ;-)

I also thought about showing meta data in the cover art panel. Let's see!

Please don't take it personal if don't consider everything 1:1 what gets mentioned. That's not how design works. Of course I will read through feedback and consider input but I will give it my own spin. I do this for a living. There is a good reason behind every decision.
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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: Design improvements from a professional UX Designer and foobar2000 fan
Last post by q-stankovic -
    I love how clean it looks like
Quote from: backslash on
- Enhanced the bottom bar to make space for bigger cover art and added an equalizer button (@q-stankovic have look)

That's not exactly what I meant. In your design the height of the footer bar increased dramatically and there is too much free space therefore. I meant following: by placing the progress bar right to the cover the thumbnail would be 4 times bigger without the need to increase the height.

Some thoughts more (to the design without sidebar):

  • It would be a valuable information to show the name of the album lists view right to the filter icon.
  • The name of the playlist is also a relevant piece of information. Actually the playlist window should contain its own minimal playlist switcher. A drop down menu f.e. would not only act as a switcher but also display the playlist name. In the meantime I think that playlist tabs would disturb the design
  • As far as I can see you separated in the footer bar the repeat and shuffle functionality into two icons. I wouldn't do that. I always loved that fb2k merged all these modes into one list of possible playback orders. I think that the playback orders name should be readable
  • The current mac version wants to be an east replication of the windows version in terms of ui apart from the footer bar that is unique. I think that the most parts should be unique and mac-like. In my eyes an layout editor for cartoon of several layouts is not necessary at all. Generally a mac user expects a three pane layout. In my eyes a good three pane layout would be: library viewer - playlist - selection info viewer. While the playlist is always shown the library viewer pane and the selection info viewer pane could be switchable by icons in the top bar of the window. Also the cover view should be combined with fb2ks selection infos (metadata, location ...). Here a screenshot of another player to show what I mean:

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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JSplitter (splitter + SMP x64 alternative)
Last post by TF3RDL -
BTW as GDI+ rendering would be too slow, would this hardware-accelerated Canvas 2D APIs benefit JSplitter when comes to rendering something like spectrum data in realtime as opposed to simply "VU" meter?

Obviously as I said before on this reddit thread, it wouldn't replace native foobar2000 visualization components and just a new way to make visualizations (probably audio analysis-related where there is no native foobar2000 components doing that barring VST plugins) and probably customizable just by editing the underlying script
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: exhale - Open Source USAC encoder
Last post by C.R.Helmrich -
Thanks for the feedback!

AiZ, do the FFmpeg decoding glitches disappear when you use a lower preset? That may hint at the cause of that issue.

2012, that's interesting! Indeed, coding anything beyond 20 kHz is kind of silly, so I activated full-bandwidth coding only with preset 9 (after all, some may expect full audio bandwidth from a preset claiming "archival quality").
Note, though, that I added some fine-tunings going beyond simply pumping more bits into the encodings. Also, only very very few coding bits are actually spent above 20 kHz. You can verify that by looking at the spectrograms of the decoded - original difference waveforms.

Some more results from my side: current bitrate peak with HA sample Closer to God (edit), ca. 353 kbps with high-rate preset 9. Will update this post later.

Chris
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by TF3RDL -
What happened to @Crossover and his upcoming version 2.x.x.x of foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer?

I wonder what you're actually doing while being inactive on this forum for a year or whatever?

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