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CD Hardware/Software / Re: Bought the same CD twice, got THE SAME C2 errors twice!!!
Last post by Feilakas -
I have tried dumping the disc using multiple drives, however since there are actual C2 errors during read, I'd expect that different drives would read the data differently, kinda like what happens (on purpose) with the Cactus Data Shield "protection" scheme.

I'll try dumping the two discs using other drives and see if the data matches the drives and discs.

EDIT: NOPE! The data doesn't even match across re-dumps of the same disc using the same drive and also doesn't match the other disc.
All the dumps have trouble with specific LBAs but across all reads, BUT other LBAs MIGHT be read right or not as well, adding to the uncertainty.
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Scientific Discussion / Re: Can headroom worsen audio quality due to the masking threshold?
Last post by DVDdoug -
Masking is relative...  If A is 20dB louder than B and they are close in frequency, B is likely to be masked.   That 20dB ratio doesn't change when you adjust the volume up or down.   Of course, if the volume is low-enough, B may be so quiet that it's not audible by itself without the masking.

Plus, 1dB or so of change is pretty insignificant.

I've never heard the clipping caused by an MP3 going over 0dB so personally I don't worry about it.   I've got tons of MP3s ripped from CDs that "show clipping" in Audacity.     And I've never heard of anyone else hearing it either.  I've never heard of a related controlled listening test (which would have to be level-matched).

If you hear a compression artifact it's probably something else that won't go-away at a slightly lower level.

BTW - The MP3 isn't actually clipped.  It can go over 0dB without clipping.  But you'll clip your DAC if you play it at "full digital volume".
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Fade-in/out DSP
Last post by unekdoud -
Quote from: wcs13 on
oOoOoOohhh, I get it now! Thanks.

I have tried setting the "manual track change" fade-out to something long, say 8000ms, in order to get a slow fade-out.
Unfortunately, what foobar does is:
- Start the fade-out
- At the same time, start the next track (so we hear the two tracks at the same time, which is unwanted)

What I need is:
- Start the fade-out
- End the fade-out
- Only then, start the next track

Any clues?

Would enqueueing an 8000ms silent file work?
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Scientific Discussion / Re: Can headroom worsen audio quality due to the masking threshold?
Last post by mosin jack -
That's a really interesting question, Fred — not silly at all. You bring up a subtle but valid point about perceptual coding and how headroom might influence what a codec considers "masked" or less important. While adding headroom generally helps prevent clipping, I suppose in certain cases it could potentially cause quieter elements to fall below the codec's masking threshold. It’s a bit of a trade-off, isn’t it? Would love to hear if anyone has tested this side-by-side with real audio examples.

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foobar2000 mobile / New User - Two Feature requests
Last post by dgersic -
Recently found foobar2000 (v1.6.7) player via a web search looking for something better for IOS. So far, really like it, but of course I have a couple of suggestions I'd like to see to make it better (for me, at least).

1. In "Shuffle All Albums" playback mode, there are buttons for "<<" (previous song), ">" (play), and ">>" (next song). There's not a lot of room in the part of the screen, but I'd like to see "|<<" (previous album) and ">>|" (next album) buttons. I'd happily give up having previous / next song to get previous / next album, since I'm in an album playback mode. I'm much more likely in an "album" playback mode to want the next album (to skip over something my wife likes, for example) than I am to want the next song on the current album.

2. In "Genre", I'd like to have a version of "Shuffle All Albums". I have several genres of music available, and while sometimes I do want to have it play through all albums (shuffle all albums), other times I only want it to play a certain genre, but sill in shuffle albums order.

If that doesn't make sense, consider having Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, and Classical Music albums. By genre, right now, I can play all Classic Rock albums in order, or I can shuffle all albums and randomly switch between genres as it gets to the next album. Sometimes that's ok, other times I'd want to stay within Classic Rock.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Not Recognizing Semi-Colon as Seperator
Last post by ojdo -
Quote from: xsdaver on
After playing around a little more, it appears that on newly entered properties the field is split automatically.  Previously entered fields are not split automatically and have to be done manually.
Yes, this is intentional. Only upon manual tag editing actions (Properties dialog, masstagger actions, and a few auto-tagging components), your files and their tags are "physically" altered. But you can batch-edit/fix as many files as needs in one go, so this should not cause much work.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Fade-in/out DSP
Last post by wcs13 -
oOoOoOohhh, I get it now! Thanks.

I have tried setting the "manual track change" fade-out to something long, say 8000ms, in order to get a slow fade-out.
Unfortunately, what foobar does is:
- Start the fade-out
- At the same time, start the next track (so we hear the two tracks at the same time, which is unwanted)

What I need is:
- Start the fade-out
- End the fade-out
- Only then, start the next track

Any clues?