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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression
Last post by 2012 -
Quote from: btc on
TSAC @ 8 kbps is comparable to Opus @ 24 kbps, maybe a bit more too. Great, I'll give you that. But that's it. TSAC has the same limitation as all other AI-based audiocodecs. It doesn't scale up with higher bitrate.  Nothing remotely close even to the modest HE-AAC@48 kbps, leave alone any higher bitrates/transparency levels.



Comparable how? I'd say TSAC @<any bitrate> is not comparable to <non-AI codec>@<any bitrate>. They are just too different for one to make such comparisons.

TSAC, especially at high bitrates, is very impressive actually. Better than any other codec I came across. Too bad it's not usable in practice, or even open-source (allowing experimentation, alternative models, ..etc).
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression
Last post by btc -
TSAC @ 8 kbps is comparable to Opus @ 24 kbps, maybe a bit more too. Great, I'll give you that. But that's it. TSAC has the same limitation as all other AI-based audiocodecs. It doesn't scale up with higher bitrate.  Nothing remotely close even to the modest HE-AAC@48 kbps, leave alone any higher bitrates/transparency levels.

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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_skip: skip tracks that match a specified search query
Last post by Case -
No, that's not at all what I'm saying. The query string in Preferences determines which tracks are skipped entirely. Skipping parts of tracks is based on tags in those files.
Tags are changed by opening properties of the track. Fields are the text labels on the left, like Artist, Title, Album... For partial skipping a track needs a field called Skip with timestamped data of parts that one wants to skip.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_skip: skip tracks that match a specified search query
Last post by CapHCapH -
Well, I have the "Skip Track" component in the list of components in Foobar options.
Right clicking it gives 'about' and 'remove' so I guess it's enabled.
I do have 'Skip tracks and use bookmarks' checked under 'Playback' option.
You say the syntax is correct, just putting "SKIP=-00:01:00" w/o the apostrophes
in Preferences->Tools->Skip Track in "Skip track query" field.
So everything seems correct but skipping is still not happening ):
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_skip: skip tracks that match a specified search query
Last post by Case -
That is correct, if you added a new tag field called 'SKIP' with value '-00:01:00'. Once a file has such tag and the component is enabled, playing that track will instantly skip the first minute of the track, provided that the file format in question supports seeking.

Check that the component is enabled. Open the 'Playback' secion of the main menu and verify that there's a checkmark next to the 'Skip tracks & use bookmarks' entry.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Case -
Thanks for the recordings, and thanks for time aligning them. Made comparison faster.

I see no signs of playback issues, the samples have retained perfect time alignment and only differ slightly in amplitude. Which is expected since there are two analog-digital conversions with two different devices involved. I'd bet there would be identical differences visible simply by recording the same piece with the exact same setup again.

With the fist track the record timings didn't align as closely between the players as hugely boosted inverse mix allows hearing some music. With the second track sample alignment happened to get very close - inverse mix spectrum even shows moire patterns.