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Last post by Case -
You don't need a microphone to record the output of your DAC. Just plug cable from the output to input and record. Though it will be a mostly useless exercise as player can't add jitter. A player can only keep the audio interface's buffers filled, the audio interface is responsible for timing the signal and actually making it audible. If the player fails to keep buffers filled you don't need a specialist to notice it. It will cause very audible glitching.
Last post by Case -
The build-in FLAC profile in foobar's converter uses parameters --ignore-chunk-sizes with FLAC. As the name suggests that makes the encoder ignore the short length in WAV header and encode until EOF.
I'm trying to convert a large FLAC file (a bit over two hours of 24/96 stereo) to lossyFLAC in foobar2000 (v1.6.13) using piped output from foobar2000 to a command line encoder piping output to flac.exe and I experience a failure with the following message:
Source: "H:\Test\Test.flac" An error occurred while finalizing the encoding process (Object not found) : "H:\Test\lossyFLAC\Test.flac" Conversion failed: Object not found
* New: Left/Right and Mid/Side level meter. * The left/right channel pair is selectable. * Spectogram * New: Vertical scrolling and static spectogram. A special setting is available to align the spectogram with a spectrum bars visualization over or under the spectogram. * Improved: Overall polishing and removal of glitches. * Added: Separate peak and RMS level read outs to the peak meter. * Fixed: An old color bug in the owner-drawn menu list.
You can only download it from GitHub until the final release.
I'd appreciate any (constructive) feedback about the implementation of the balance and correlation meter and the vertical spectogram.
...it's also worth noting that the benefit of ASIO is decreased audio latency, not increased sound quality. If there is a degradation in sound quality with ASIO output, it is either a driver issue or something else in the audio pipeline that is causing an issue.
The ASIO drivers "sound" better, it doesn't mean that the bits are different - I assume that both pipelines are "bit-perfect", but latency, jitter or generally timing is crucial for spatial effect, i.e. the soundstage. They also impact other sound parameters. Windows Audio Mixer is to be avoided. It degrades the sound quality; "exclusive mode" improves things when properly implemented. Generally, no upsampling is much better than a bad one. The v1 v2 difference is not big, so the question is how may people did A/B comparisons and what did they listen to. Acoustic songs are the best for this. Busy, rock tracks masks this issue, too. Is this Windows-only problem? I have no iOS to test it. I’ve got no big hopes for a fix. Real-time stream profiling is a tedious task and first a developer (or the Developer 😊, don’t know if there’s a team), needs to reproduce the problem, however there’s a small chance that this “problem report” will trigger some ideas about changes in the data stream processing that could negatively affect the jitter when compared to version 1.X. We’ll see.
Last post by mudlord -
Echo has also now being added, for those who want a simple delay/plate-reverb like effect rather than room simulation. There was talks of more foo_dsp_effect stuff added but echo/reverb was decided to be priorities.
Since there is still no updated decoder DLL I sandboxed the process and added support for 32-bit foobar2000 while at it. Since the DLLs are only 64-bit the 32-bit component won't be able to decode anything unless the OS is also 64-bit. And I listed the component on my component page: https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_input_halac
Thank you very much for your interest in the topic and for what you have done. You are great. I have uploaded the 32-bit compiled versions of the Encoder and Decoder from version 0.2.7 to Github as SSE2 and AVX. The 32-bit version may experience slightly loss of speed during the Encode stage.
I'm trying to prepare the things I get notes for the 0.2.8 DLL version (Windows/Linux). And since the DLL will be independent of the file and the file path, Player will now have multiple language support.
Last post by jarsonic -
...it's also worth noting that the benefit of ASIO is decreased audio latency, not increased sound quality. If there is a degradation in sound quality with ASIO output, it is either a driver issue or something else in the audio pipeline that is causing an issue.
Last post by jarsonic -
I have not run into this issue, and have not heard of anyone else running into a similar issue during the entire development of foobar2000 2.x. One thing to note is that ASIO tends to bypass Windows Audio Mixer settings, so make sure that the max volume levels for fb2k in the mixer are at the same level (100%) for both installations. Also ensure that you have the latest audio drivers for your system.
Not really my place to say, but there's a big no-no against sound quality claims without substantive proof. How about uploading 30s samples demonstrating your point, so that other ears can do an ABX?
Unfortunately, I’ve got no high quality microphones nor the ears audio model to make such recording, but everyone can quickly make a test installing the second version of Foobar “portably” – 2 Foobar versions can be run parallelly – which should allow you to quickly switch between them. Just make sure to use a decent DAC and heaphones to hear the soundstage changes. A portable installation of Foobar2000 can be easily removed when not needed.