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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Search-by-Distance-SMP
Last post by Terence -
Regor, did you manage to compile Essentia with Tensorflow?
If you want to use Essentia with Python, with Tensorflow, on Windows, here's my Python wheel file from a few months ago. Tensorflow is inside.
The file size is beyond the forum limit, so I put the file on a Nextcloud instance. Share link: https://nuage.numericloud.eu/s/A5KZSM88eyAxwnB
There are logs to show that all tests have passed.

There's also another, more recent version of this python wheel, but Tensorflow is not inside. Look here and here.

I followed this recipe, and with this file (python wheel) you're at step E.
To install:
  • Install Python (I installed python 3.11, then upgraded to python 3.12 and so far it's working for me),
  • Optionally, create a virtual environment in the folder of your choice (both venv commands). I haven't done this on Windows, so the package is installed globally, and so far it's working fine for me. But on my Linux distribution, it's necessary,
  • In a terminal, do: pip install path\to\wheel.whl

Then you can start making your own python scripts.
I can tell you which models I've chosen, my python script to analyze and tag the files, and my Search-by-Distance settings in foobar. There are several possibilities for keys and BPMs, but I don't know which is best.
I tagged my entire library. It took a while. I'm curious to see what others do.
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Vinyl / Re: Which is the best suggested tool to rip Vinyl in LOSSLESS quality
Last post by fooball -
Quote from: Marin30 on
I need to export in lossless so no more sound deteriorations are made.
Personally I would export as .wav and then convert that to the desired format afterwards.  If file size is not an issue, then sure, lossless if you want.  Just understand that any loss of quality due to using a lossy format will be totally insignificant compared with the loss of quality due to recording from vinyl.

Quote from: Marin30 on
Do you have any suggestions for the settings I should set in Audacity for the best rip?
There are no settings.  You'll see a microphone input level, all you need to do is make sure there is no clipping (the waveform display is always below max).  Hopefully your USB turntable has RIAA built in, if not you can apply it to the captured sample afterwards.

Once you have captured the sample, top and tail it and then save to .wav.  Then you can look at removing clicks and hiss and save it again (different filename).  By saving at each stage you can always go back to a previous point in the process.  Once you have your final version, save it as final.wav (or whatever) and convert that to final.flac (or whatever).

Most of what you want is on the Effects menu, and you have to select all (Ctrl+A) to define what section the effect is applied to.  If you don't know Audacity it's a learning curve, but there is plenty of reference material and it's useful to know if you do any audio manipulation at all.
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Vinyl / Re: Which is the best suggested tool to rip Vinyl in LOSSLESS quality
Last post by Chibisteven -
Quote from: Marin30 on
Thanks for your answer. Do you have any suggestions for the settings I should set in Audacity for the best rip?

With Audacity as it's multi-track digital audio editing software, you can export a Wav file out of the box but you need the FFMPEG add-on to export to other formats: https://lame.buanzo.org/ffmpeg.php

FFMPEG is multi-platform and is it's own tool for encoding and decoding various digital formats both lossless and lossy and common and obscure formats and it has a MAC version as well: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/

FLAC is multi-platform for compressing exported WAVs and AIFFs and is the most well known of lossless formats and has a MAC version: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/flac

WavPack is multi-platform and has a MAC version and is similar to FLAC: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wavpack

Of course there's Apple Lossless (ALAC) as well.

I'm not a MAC user by any means but I know a lot of stuff in this area tends to be multi-platform.

I want to be clear about this and please keep in mind that the digitization of any analog source is not a lossless process.  Vinyl is not lossless by it's very analog nature.  No analog format is lossless at all.  Lossless is strictly a digital domain only thing. that means the digital audio itself is unchanged either for transmission or storage  The editing and changing of audio itself is not lossless either.  Compression of digital audio can be either lossless or lossy.  Lossless doesn't have a quality, it strictly means that the digital audio itself remains unchanged or can be reconstructed back to it's original state before any change was made.  Your vinyl recording will always sound like vinyl and nothing else.
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Vinyl / Re: Which is the best suggested tool to rip Vinyl in LOSSLESS quality
Last post by Marin30 -
Quote from: Chibisteven on
Quote from: fooball on
if it were Windows I would use Audacity, I don't know what's available for Mac.
Audacity has always been multi platform and is currently available for Windows, MAC, and Linux:
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/


Thanks for your answer. Do you have any suggestions for the settings I should set in Audacity for the best rip?
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Vinyl / Re: Which is the best suggested tool to rip Vinyl in LOSSLESS quality
Last post by Marin30 -
Quote from: fooball on
Since you can't "rip" an LP like you would a CD (ie by reading the data rather than playing it), all you are doing is inputting the audio from the LP by playing it, at 1x speed.  Any audio recorder or editor app will do that.  You'll probably want something which can remove clicks and hiss and then split the overall recording into tracks – if it were Windows I would use Audacity, I don't know what's available for Mac.

There is very little point saving the result as lossless, there will be no quality to preserve.

Thanks for your answer. There will be 1 track only that I need to rip, not the whole Vinyl.
Unfortunately I will have to do it from a Mac computer, that's why I was asking for a tool and for the best configurations.

I need to export in lossless so no more sound deteriorations are made.
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Vinyl / Re: Which is the best suggested tool to rip Vinyl in LOSSLESS quality
Last post by fooball -
Since you can't "rip" an LP like you would a CD (ie by reading the data rather than playing it), all you are doing is inputting the audio from the LP by playing it, at 1x speed.  Any audio recorder or editor app will do that.  You'll probably want something which can remove clicks and hiss and then split the overall recording into tracks – if it were Windows I would use Audacity, I don't know what's available for Mac.

There is very little point saving the result as lossless, there will be no quality to preserve.
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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: Play DSD Multichannel on MacBook Air
Last post by Kurt7 -
Yes.  I have Tools/DSD/Input (Preferable Area) set to Multichannel.  That setting only dictates what type of files get imported to your playlist if you're making the addition with a .iso file.  Multichannel presents multichannel files (if available), Stereo, presents only 2-channel and None presents both multichannel and 2-channel to your playlist.  Outside of which format is presented (stereo or multichannel) it has no bearing on how Foobar2000 processes/plays the files.