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Scientific Discussion / Re: Megaphone file sizes make me look into state of VBR
Last post by Porcus -
Quote from: balloonguy on
Maybe this anger is misplaced but I have one podcaster who treats it as an archive and uploads hour-long 256kpbs for talk. 119MB for 1:05. Seems Soundcloud seems to have VBR podcasts consistently.

Your general concern aside:
Soundcloud streams as 128 CBR. Knowing the upload is VBR, actually listening to the CBR while whining over the V, doesn't that sound like classical audiophoolery?

Getting an extra cloud backup by uploading in a format good enough for later transcoding, it doesn't appear that stupid to me. Of course, you can do better than the 1.6 GB uploaded in 32-bit WAVE at https://soundcloud.com/cvltnation/cvlt-cast-episode-one-doom-2016 (... and beware what might be a very nasty volume spike, I RG scanned it but didn't check thoroughly). Sure upload your music direct from your DAW if you like, but this is a podcast.
Still streams as MP3 at 128 CBR though. And it isn't because it is a "non-mp3" format: https://soundcloud.com/cvltnation/cvlt-cast-2-bolzer is 320 CBR as file, streamed at 128 CBR. Yes I am logged in.
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Scientific Discussion / Re: Megaphone file sizes make me look into state of VBR
Last post by shadowking -
Quote from: binaryhermit on
Quote from: balloonguy on
But the fact that now there are 2 sources now who do not know immediately how to fix the biggest problem with vbr for podcasts, the seeking problem, within mp3, like it said on medium says something.
Is it possible that "something" that it says is that those two people, rather than searching for a solution that would allow them to use VBR, went the easy route and just use CBR instead?

Common for inexperienced folk to use top cbr settings like 256 or 320 . Even for silence.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by pqyt -
Quote from: Case on
Quote from: pqyt on
Quote from: sveakul on
I just noticed that the 32-bit version of the plugin is not useable with Foobar 1.6.17--when attempting to install, Foobar produces a "failed to load DLL, not compatible with this version of the Foobar SDK" message.  Any chance of making it backward compatible with the older SDK?
You'll have to ask Peter to back-port the API's. The message is generated by foobar2000 itself.
I just compiled your latest sources with the latest SDK with FOOBAR2000_TARGET_VERSION at 80, which is the default, and the component works fine even on foobar2000 v1.5.

Are you perhaps using the foobar2000 SDK 2023-09-06? It had a bug in its version defines and it defaulted to require foobar2000 v2.0. It was fixable by editing the version defines and a fixed version was uploaded a week later.
Yes, 2023-09-06. I'll upgrade and use it for the next version.

On the subject of bugs: any chance on addressing the warnings the SDK generates in VS2022 during compilation:
- gmtime()
- localtime()
- strdup()
- GetVersionExW()
- GetVersion
- wcscpy()
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by Case -
Quote from: pqyt on
Quote from: sveakul on
I just noticed that the 32-bit version of the plugin is not useable with Foobar 1.6.17--when attempting to install, Foobar produces a "failed to load DLL, not compatible with this version of the Foobar SDK" message.  Any chance of making it backward compatible with the older SDK?
You'll have to ask Peter to back-port the API's. The message is generated by foobar2000 itself.
I just compiled your latest sources with the latest SDK with FOOBAR2000_TARGET_VERSION at 80, which is the default, and the component works fine even on foobar2000 v1.5.

Are you perhaps using the foobar2000 SDK 2023-09-06? It had a bug in its version defines and it defaulted to require foobar2000 v2.0. It was fixable by editing the version defines and a fixed version was uploaded a week later.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Upmixing stereo audio to 5.1 audio - channel upmixer
Last post by Case -
If your browser can output multi channel content then your system is set up correctly. You would only need to use the exclusive mode output if you were too lazy to configure Windows to 5.1 mode and left it at stereo. In that case the default shared mode output would be limited to stereo playback.

The DSPs all work fine. You can see what they do your channels for example by using the built-in VU Meter visualization. You can add it to the UI or open it as a popup from main menu View -> Visualizations -> VU Meter.
When foobar2000 is playing stereo you will see only two channels. When it's playing 5.1 you'll see 6 bars showing the loudness of each channel.
Another way to test in more detail what DSPs do is to use the Converter and configure the DSP there and output the result to WAV. Then open the created WAV in an audio editor.

Do you get 5.1 output using foobar2000 with the test tracks on the page you linked? They work as 5.1 out-of-the-box, no need to do anything to foobar2000 settings.

How exactly have you configured foobar2000? I for example have Realtek ASIO drivers that only expose stereo channels, so if I use that output I won't get multi channel playback at all.
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General - (fb2k) / Feature request: selected item text color
Last post by Bertilak -
This has been mentioned here but I though I would bump this.
In 2.1 the selection in the album list turns the text black, so for any color scheme like dark blue the selection is nearly unreadable.
A picture is below:



I updated to the newest preview but the problem remains. It's a pretty annoying problem.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: [fb2k v2] Random Pools (foo_random_pools)
Last post by Azuriye -
Hello fbuser, disregard the previous post as I've exhausted every option but it seems to be harder to achieve it now, Perhaps I'll try tweaking other values within the Random Pool and change SQL queries to get what I want. Before that, I have a small doubt...

Quote from: fbuser on
Yes, this is basically correct. There is an easy but only manual solution: Assign to all relevant pools, which you have defined, the same keyboard shortcut. Another more complex solution, which adds more than one pool automatically, could be to utilize function on_playlist_items_removed(playlist, new_count) {} within foo_uie_wsh_panel_mod together with "Remove played tracks" from foo_playlist_attributes.


Is this possible with JScript Panel3? I've asked in the JScript discussion page which is similar to the answer you provided in your old post.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,110516.new.html#info_1036207

I want my playlist to be a mirror's copy of the SQL rows which have been retrieved and it only seems to be possible when assigning a keyboard shortcut which adds in All the pools. Auto-add doesn't seem to work well here and it looks like the only logical approach will be to clear the playlist after each track has been played back.

EDIT: Okay setting Auto-add to 1 and just clearing the playlist is another way of approaching an exact mirror's copy of the SQL rows selected. I have to code up some logic with the JScript Panel. Thanks.