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AAC / Re: CBR AAC Encoder

Last post by korth - Today at 15:24

What cutoff are you trying to apply and how are you trying to apply it (command-line example)?

AAC / Re: CBR AAC Encoder

Last post by Klymins - Today at 14:49

But, I still can't apply a custom cutoff. Does anyone know why?

AAC / Re: CBR AAC Encoder

Last post by Klymins - Today at 13:04

Quote from: Klymins on 2024-09-19 19:53:51

Quote from: shadowking on 2024-06-26 12:17:21
fdkaac, qaac , neroaac

@shadowking Do you know how can I export a raw AAC (.aac) file with qaac, and use the --lowpass setting with it (it says it requires libsoxconvolver but I don't know how to install it)?

I found how to install libsoxconvolver (topic#116598) but I still need to learn how to export a raw AAC file with it or convert a .m4a file to a raw AAC file.

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

Last post by paregistrase - Today at 12:24

Anyone having problems with release images?

Last days I noticed that there the option to manage images is not available, there is no album cover preview and no cover images are being downloaded.

I check in the console and I have a message that said.

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foo_discogger: Unable to read album thumbnail from cache, index: 0

CD Hardware/Software / Re: Configuring Wack 0.46 for Exact Audio Copy

Last post by korth - Today at 12:01

The EAC Placeholders in the .ini file for 'Arguments' and 'Filepath' will not work with EAC 1.8
There's a chance that Wack won't work with the newer placeholders.

You're not applying REPLAYGAIN
EAC 1.8 can encode to both MP3 and WavPack at the same time.
What else does Wack do that you need?

AAC / Re: CBR AAC Encoder

Last post by Klymins - Today at 11:09

Quote from: itisljar on Today at 07:21

Quote from: Klymins on 2024-06-30 12:46:40
11025Hz is not a bad sampling rate for me, and linear interpolation is not a bad resampling method for me. By the way, did you know that most Flash games were used 11025Hz 16kbps mono MP3's and resampled them with linear interpolation? This is the default audio format of Adobe Flash. If you want to see a game that uses this sound format, go to https://archive.org/details/tails-nightmare .

This sound is not the result of just the encoder. It's bass boosted, bit crushed and heavily equalized/DSP'd to sound like that.

Why do you think it's bass boosted, bit crushed, and heavily DSP'd? I compared it to the original music and I did not see any signs of bass boost, bit crush, and heavy DSP effects.

CD Hardware/Software / Re: Configuring Wack 0.46 for Exact Audio Copy

Last post by navin - Today at 10:47

Good day,

Apologies for reviving an old thread but I figured it might be better than creating a new one.

After 10+ years I was given 2 CDs and wanted to rip them to my collection.

I downloaded EAC ver 1.8 and decided to use my old version of Wack 0.46, Lame 3.96.1, and WavPack 4.2.

When I tried to rip the CDs, EAC created a WAV and CUE file but no MP3 or WavPack files. I suspect that EAC might not be calling Wack.

I set external compression to my Wack 0.46 directory and my encoders.ini file is as follows:

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[MP3-ID3]
EXEPATH=E:\lame-3.96.1\lame.exe
ARGUMENTS=--preset extreme --id3v2-only --pad-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --scale %x --ta "%a" --tl "%g" --tn "%n" --tt "%t" --ty "%y" --tg "%m" %s %d
FILEPATH=G:\mp3\%a\%g\%n - %t
EXTENSION=.mp3
FILETYPE=1
APPLYREPLAYGAIN=false ;;;;;;;;;; mp3gain stores it's information in APEv2 tags.
REPLAYGAINEXEPATH=    ;;;;;;;;;; Using mp3gain with ID3 tags will cause the tags
REPLAYGAINARGUMENTS=  ;;;;;;;;;; to disappear on some players (ie, Foobar).

[WAVPACK]
EXEPATH=E:\wavpack-4.2\wavpack\wavpack.exe
ARGUMENTS=-hm -w "Artist=%a" -w "Album=%g" -w "Track=%n" -w "Title=%t" -w "Year=%y" -w "Genre=%m" %s %d
FILEPATH=H:\wav\%a\%g\%n - %t
EXTENSION=.wv
FILETYPE=1
APPLYREPLAYGAIN=false
REPLAYGAINEXEPATH=
REPLAYGAINARGUMENTS=

As per EAC ver 1.8 requirements, the command line options are as follows: %source% %original% %dest% "%albumartist%" "%albumtitle%" "%year%" "%genre%"

When I ran EAC I got the following Log file.

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Exact Audio Copy V1.8 from 15. July 2024

EAC extraction logfile from 20. September 2024, 14:25

Les Presteej / Le temps passe...

Used drive  : MOSER   BAER DH-20A3S   Adapter: 1  ID: 0

Read mode               : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache      : No
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction                      : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations       : Yes
Used interface                              : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format              : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate                : 32 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : Yes
Command line compressor         : E:\wack-0.46\wack\Wack.exe
Additional command line options : %source% %original% %dest% "%albumartist%" "%albumtitle%" "%year%" "%genre%"


TOC of the extracted CD

     Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector 
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 |  3:47.18 |         0    |    17042   
        2  |  3:47.18 |  4:18.34 |     17043    |    36426   
        3  |  8:05.52 |  3:32.39 |     36427    |    52365   
        4  | 11:38.16 |  3:18.62 |     52366    |    67277   
        5  | 14:57.03 |  3:15.15 |     67278    |    81917   
        6  | 18:12.18 |  3:18.11 |     81918    |    96778   
        7  | 21:30.29 |  3:45.05 |     96779    |   113658   
        8  | 25:15.34 |  3:09.74 |    113659    |   127907   
        9  | 28:25.33 |  4:00.18 |    127908    |   145925   
       10  | 32:25.51 |  3:09.59 |    145926    |   160159   
       11  | 35:35.35 |  3:41.47 |    160160    |   176781   
       12  | 39:17.07 |  3:23.48 |    176782    |   192054   
       13  | 42:40.55 |  3:41.27 |    192055    |   208656   
       14  | 46:22.07 |  3:45.06 |    208657    |   225537   


Range status and errors

Selected range

     Filename E:\wack-0.46\wack\Les Presteej - Le temps passe....wav

     Suspicious position 0:42:30

     Peak level 100.0 %
     Extraction speed 5.9 X
     Range quality 99.9 %
     Copy CRC 18F02F14
     Copy finished

There were errors

AccurateRip summary
 
Track  1  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [DCA78261]  (AR v2)
Track  2  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [D7E504D5]  (AR v2)
Track  3  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [597A1F15]  (AR v2)
Track  4  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [B14EDA04]  (AR v2)
Track  5  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [8FC95105]  (AR v2)
Track  6  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [EF332F10]  (AR v2)
Track  7  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [30687486]  (AR v2)
Track  8  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [93AF093E]  (AR v2)
Track  9  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [1D5D87D9]  (AR v2)
Track 10  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [58EFC994]  (AR v2)
Track 11  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [9B4CB013]  (AR v2)
Track 12  cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3)  [5EA1BE24], AccurateRip returned [326F8321]  (AR v2)
Track 13  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [1C079308]  (AR v2)
Track 14  accurately ripped (confidence 2)  [8FE4F1C7]  (AR v2)
 
13 track(s) accurately ripped
 1 track(s) could not be verified as accurate

Some tracks could not be verified as accurate

End of status report

---- AcoustID Plugin V1.2.0

Submitting 13 results to AcoustID

AcoustID successfully submitted


---- CUETools DB Plugin V2.2.6

[CTDB TOCID: IvfwHija4RGlzbstBDmmPrybfUY-] found
Submit result: IvfwHija4RGlzbstBDmmPrybfUY- has been submitted
Track | CTDB Status
  1   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  2   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  3   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  4   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  5   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  6   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  7   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  8   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
  9   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
 10   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
 11   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
 12   | (55/55) Differs in 60 samples @03:14:11-03:14:12
 13   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
 14   | (55/55) Accurately ripped
If you are sure that your rip contains errors, you can use CUETools to repair it.

Is there some configuration in EAC that I am missing?

Thanks.

MOD edit: add code tags

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner

Last post by Squeller - Today at 10:35

"-8,21 LUFS" - You're using a comma, isn't a period much more common worldwide? Did you take locale into consideration (my os is speaking german)? I prefer a period to keep things more, i.e. compatible. Personally I do not like the german comma approach, for me comma delimits lists.

Scientific Discussion / Re: One updated and one new audio processing DSP library

Last post by danadam - Today at 09:34

Tested on some old Ubuntu (desktop):

gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Compiled with -O3. Run:

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./art -q -y -4 -r96000 INPUT OUTPUT

5 times:

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for ((i=1;i<=5;i++)); do echo -n "$i "; { time ... ; } 2>&1 | grep "real" | cut -f2; done

and discarding max and min. The input is 30s of float/44.1k.

Comparing this change:

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-    sum1 = apply_filter (cxt->filters [i], source - cxt->numTaps / 2 + 1, cxt->numTaps);
-    sum2 = apply_filter (cxt->filters [i+1], source - cxt->numTaps / 2 + 1, cxt->numTaps);
+    sum1 = apply_filter (cxt->filters [i], source - cxt->numTaps / 2 + 1, cxt->numTaps/8*8);
+    sum2 = apply_filter (cxt->filters [i+1], source - cxt->numTaps / 2 + 1, cxt->numTaps/8*8);

There seem to be some significant time improvement with version 4:

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                                            version
                          1             2             3             4
                     2 0m6.418s    2 0m3.355s    2 0m2.201s    2 0m3.774s
cxt->numTaps         4 0m6.458s    3 0m3.357s    3 0m2.200s    3 0m3.772s
                     5 0m6.424s    5 0m3.373s    5 0m2.205s    4 0m3.826s

                     2 0m6.423s    1 0m3.365s    2 0m2.199s    1 0m3.424s
cxt->numTaps/8*8     4 0m6.421s    3 0m3.363s    3 0m2.197s    2 0m3.388s
                     5 0m6.417s    5 0m3.379s    5 0m2.198s    3 0m3.399s

But then tested on a bit newer Ubuntu (laptop):

gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.4.0
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz

and there is no change:

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     4
1 0m3.666s
2 0m3.683s
4 0m3.696s

1 0m3.683s
3 0m3.668s
5 0m3.665s

AAC / Re: Adobe Media Encoder CS6 AAC Encoder

Last post by itisljar - Today at 07:29

You'll have to licence its use.

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