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Other Lossy Codecs / LossyFlac vs Opus 256
Last post by 2FlacShakur -
Hi all,

Long time lurker first time poster.

I have 2 hard drives full with flac files from my CD collection, i would like to listen to some of these on the go on my ipod (rockbox) but i'm a little conflicted regarding which format to use.

On some samples with my PHILIPS Fidelio X2HR headphones, although entry level headphones, i feel like i'm able to hear small differences in background drums / cymbals on some tracks all the way up to Opus 256kbps. I know that even Xiph state that 128kbps should be transparent but it doesn't feel that way to me (is it psychological?).

I would like to have the best quality with all the background parts of the song easy to hear as per the flacs but i would also like a compromise in size vs quality.

This has lead me to consider LossyFlac (extraportable) which i won't claim to fully understand how the loss in quality for the bitrate happens as the Spek shows it to look identical to the untouched flac, or Opus at 256kbps.

My question is as both these options render a similar file size which would give the best transparent sounding files?

I know that Opus uses high pass filtering where as the flacs bit depth is altered with LossyWAV>Flac .

So far with ABX tests it seems both are identical to my ears so which one would be closer to the original flac?.
 
 Any other suggestion welcomed also, I've heard but never used xHE-AAC or WavPack are these good alternatives?

also is there a nice quick way to convert LossyWav to ALAC instead of flac?


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General - (fb2k) / A Component that displays the way mp3DirectCut Does?
Last post by cwb -
Does a component already exist that can display the playing audio track the way that mp3DirectCut does, as shown in the attached screenshot.

X

I am not looking for a seekbar; only a component that displays the playing section of the audio file with the 'seconds' spread out.

To be able within the component to configure the same colors as mp3DirectCut would be a plus.


I am thinking of using such a component, but I do not know for certain that I will use it. So if a component doesn't already exist that does this. It is not a loss for me.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Wombat -
I am still wondering GCC 14 being slower with all option versions on my AMD 5900x as the older GCC 13.
If someone wants the current git-cfe3afca in 14.1.0 for testing here it is as generic, AVX2 and with disabled asm + AVX2.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by Case -
The metadata that APIs return for a track doesn't change when stream is switched. Doing what is suggested would pretty much require ignoring all metadata caches and forcing fresh tag reloads from decoders at all times.
Until there are proper interfaces to do what you want, it's best to stick to one stream.
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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
Quote from: ojdo on
Only if you look at the whole albums, which must use the loudest track's correction for the whole album in order to preserve inter-track volume differences, the classical album seems to have a louder finale section. That is not surprising, given that classical music tends to have a huge dynamic range (=loudness differences) within an album.

Thanks, i will try this. However, the courious thing is: the classical music album is just a solo flute + piano, it does not have really load sections, which would make this much album gain nececery.

I usually listen to whole albums, so i thought the album mode made sense
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Bitperfect audio in v2.x?
Last post by Case -
All default outputs in foobar2000 since v1.6 are WASAPI. The bitperfect output you want requires WASAPI exclusive, also supported natively. Just select an output that has "[exclusive]" at the end of the name.
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General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized
Last post by rzsolti -
my mpd config
#music_directory                "/music"
#playlist_directory             "/playlists"
#db_file                        "/db"
# General music daemon options ################################################
user                            "root"
group                           "root"
###############################################################################
# Input #######################################################################
input {
        plugin "curl"
}
###############################################################################
# Audio Output ################################################################
audio_output {
        type                 "alsa"
        name               "default"
        mixer_control      "SMSL SU-8"
        replay_gain_handler    "software"
}
###############################################################################
# Normalization automatic volume adjustments ##################################
replaygain                      "album"
replaygain_preamp               "0"
###############################################################################