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Polls / Re: 2023 Lossless format poll
Last post by btc -
I suggest to open a new 'Lossless poll 2025' with compression  options.

Open to suggestions.

FLAC -0 -1 ... -8, and '8p or slower'
WAVPACK  -f, [-], -h, -hh, -x4f, -x4, -x4h, -x4hh .  fast/normal/high/extra high? + x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6?
TAK - -p0, -p0e, -p0m, -p1, -p1e, -p1m, -p2, -p2e, -p2m, -p3, -p3e, -p3m, -p4, -p4e, -p4m . Does it make sense to have  them all separate  or group like  (p0/p0e/p0m), (p1/p1e/p1m)?
ALAC - fast and default
Monkey Audio- -c1000, -c2000, -c3000, -c4000, -c5000 or Fast, Normal, High, Extra High, Insane.
Optimfrog -  Only two votes in 2023, so it makes sense to keep one single option - 'Put in comments your Optimfrog compression settings'
WAV uncompressed
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General - (fb2k) / -3dB gain
Last post by Gabriel Schwartz -
I want to substract 3db from the volume (-3dB gain).
There are a few options and I wanted to check which is used when and if there's a difference between them.
The idea of -3dB is to "match" the volume between PCM and DSD as I found that PCM is louder.

  • Add Amplifier DSP (foo_dsp_amp) to DSP Manager and set -3dB
  • Set -3dB in Playback for With RG info: and Without RG info:

I also use ReplayGain
Source mode: track
Processing: apply gain and prevent clipping according to level

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General - (fb2k) / Re: Possibility of releasing the source code of FB2K
Last post by mudlord -
Quote from: fooball on
Publishing the source, regardless of licence conditions, would risk somebody plagiarising it for personal gain – licences are worthless unless you have the resources to enforce the licence, and in the commercial world those with the deepest pockets always win.

And that's what happened to me. Numerous times. I had commercial entities actively gloating about that fact, even though I had done forensic reverse engineering to prove the code was stolen for their closed source software for their locked down hardware. This is why my attitude to FOSS has changed: the GPL is worthless in the current year. You might as well go public domain/The Unlicense/WTFPL and accept the code will be stolen for the code you accept is fine to be stolen, or go closed source. And that's what I have been doing.

Quote from: Meowdori on
Are you one of the core Foobar2000 devs btw?

I contributed code to the mobile ports of FB2K, but I am not the core developer. I have no control over it.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Title formatting/syntax for proper bitdepth
Last post by Case -
Quote from: Porcus on
"Single-channel" HDCD packets have been found and discussed before:
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,79427.msg865928.html#msg865928
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,79427.msg900371.html#msg900371
(You aren't clear about whether that particular thing has HDCD flags in both channels (but only one set to gain), or whether only one channel is flagged as being HDCD at all.)
There are valid HDCD codes on both channels constantly. This is the HDCD Sampler disc after all. The quote from the second link contradicts with actual observed behavior, thought part of the reasoning logic supports the observed behavior. When a gain change is already running, keeping the gain steady or adjusting it slightly is less audible than suddenly temporarily changing the gain to zero. Adjusting gain on one channel only, however, would never make sense.

Quote from: Porcus on
(Is it plausible that the Pacific chip had something like that?)
I don't know how advanced device it was, but 32-bit or 16-bit are the guesses I'd go with. I'd think the Microsoft implementation is close to actual hardware, or then it was simply created from highly detailed specs. But for Windows 7 or even XP era PC the 32-bit overflow would not have been a problem.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_vumeter
Last post by sveakul -
Quote from: Majestyk on
In 0.8.0 I'm having a problem with the Tuning menu when selecting an option and then using the scroll wheel. With the exception of ZERO and GAIN, the scroll wheel does not operate properly.

Instead of changing the levels it instead cycles through the menu choices. So if FPS is selected and I scroll the mouse (without pressing anything), it will cycle through the Tuning menu options. Then it eventually stays on GAIN.  So in other words I can only change the level of ZERO and GAIN.

I tested this on 0.7.7 and it works perfectly fine.
Yikes, I just noticed the same thing here.  Oops mentioned that he added different ways of accessing the tuning menu ("Add `Escape` and `RAlt/AltGr` as modifier keys on the mouse wheel to change tuning parameter") but the once you get there you can only change the VALUE of "gain", otherwise the wheel just cycles the parameter NAMES without allowing a value change.

Hopefully a quick fix??