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Topic: FSLAC: A FLAC Backward-Compatible Free Semi-Lossless Audio Coder (NMR) (Read 15944 times) previous topic - next topic
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Re: FSLAC: A FLAC Backward-Compatible Free Semi-Lossless Audio Coder (NMR)

Reply #50 –
Dear @C.R.Helmrich, if you're about to abandon this project, be sure to roll out one last release that improves the sound as in that sample of yours (May, 2022). You see, a lot of hardware has FLAC support, including quite old players, so Exhale (which you mentioned above) is not an option there.
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Re: FSLAC: A FLAC Backward-Compatible Free Semi-Lossless Audio Coder (NMR)

Reply #51 –
The difference in size between FSLAC -2 and -3 never ceases to amaze me. But the hand still reaches for -3, because its spectrogram is almost indistinguishable from the original, which welcomes further lossy compression for the portable player. Of course, the spectrogram is not everything, you need to check with your ears, but it would still be unpleasant to upgrade the hardware tomorrow and discover that the -2 collection has flaws. Curiously, achieving the same visual indistinguishability with Wavpack in hybrid mode is not easy, it stubbornly retains some content (quantization noise, I guess) in the upper segment.

Boris Blank - Vertigo heroes (Part I) @ 48 kHz 24 bit
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 9 651 738 =  345 kbps = out.fslac2.flac
11 655 366 =  416 kbps = out.b4x.wv
14 237 225 =  508 kbps = out.lossywav-high.flac
17 705 218 =  632 kbps = out.fslac3.flac
47 354 972 = 1691 kbps = out.flac
64 512 068 = out.wav

Diary of dreams - Viva la Bestia @ 44.1 kHz 24 bit
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11 883 904 =  309 kbps = out.fslac2.flac
14 424 398 =  375 kbpx = out.b4x.wv
18 684 292 =  486 kbps = out.lossywav-high.flac
21 878 177 =  569 kbpx = out.fslac3.flac
63 806 211 = 1660 kbps = out.flac
81 359 276 = out.wav
• Join our efforts to make Helix MP3 encoder great again
• Opus complexity & qAAC dependence on Apple is an aberration from Vorbis & Musepack breakthroughs
• Let's pray that D. Bryant improve WavPack hybrid, C. Helmrich update FSLAC, M. van Beurden teach FLAC to handle non-audio data

Re: FSLAC: A FLAC Backward-Compatible Free Semi-Lossless Audio Coder (NMR)

Reply #52 –
Quote from: Verónica Thorn on
@C.R.Helmrich Could you update it with FLAC 1.4.2 please?

Oh, @C.R.Helmrich, where are you? Boys and girls are hungry for an update to 1.4.3.
• Join our efforts to make Helix MP3 encoder great again
• Opus complexity & qAAC dependence on Apple is an aberration from Vorbis & Musepack breakthroughs
• Let's pray that D. Bryant improve WavPack hybrid, C. Helmrich update FSLAC, M. van Beurden teach FLAC to handle non-audio data