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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: libttaR (TTA rewrite part 2)
Last post by mycroft -
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smaller packets, wouldn't TTA be fixed at about a second - that's not small?
yes, with CD quality audio, the framesize is 180KiB.

Not decoded framesize, but encoded ones as stored in final output, if audio is mostly silence it will slow thing down unless TTA encode silence frames extremely inefficiently which may be true after all considering it poor design decisions.
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: libttaR (TTA rewrite part 2)
Last post by mycroft -
Still extremely misleading and biased, proper benchmark are done by decoding very long audio files and looking at speed of decoding versus realtime. Also TTA is more irrelevant and niche than TAK, and TAK actually did have some cool new innovative stuff to offer, TTA have nothing new to offer.
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Support - (fb2k) / issue with foobar2000 not updating the playlistview/library
Last post by Just_Addict -
Foobar2000 2.1.5 32bit

I've noticed a bit of an issue with foobar2000 not noticing changes in the library despite having used right-click > File Operations > Delete File.

I am cleaning out duplicates from different collections, and let fb2k move files from one folder to another with the intent to overwrite the existing tracks. However, due to some differences in character encoding (typographic quotes versus normal quotes), some tracks ended up creating a copy. So, I used the above mentioned method to delete the ones that should have gotten overwritten during the move. The playlist looked like it got updated, but when I then executed True Peak Scanner, it complained that some objects couldn't be found. Same error when I tried reloading tags from the files. Yet the playlist showed only those tracks that should be there.

After I changed to a different album in the album list and back to the album I just cleaned, to my surprise all of the files I had just deleted, showed up again in the playlist. A quick check in Explorer showed they were indeed no longer present, so the delete action did in fact delete those files I wanted removed. I tried Edit > Remove Dead Items, no change, I tried shift-Library > Rescan folders, no change. I tried True Peak Scanner again, and this time fb2k crashed. Report sent in...

I also have noticed similar symptoms of fb2k not detecting external changes in the library. Repeated use of shift-Library > Rescan folders sometimes results in changes being detected, other times I could only get it to detect changes by switching to another album and back again... yet the above mentioned issue may have made it look like this worked but changes not actually updated in the library file.

This has prompted me to revert back to using 1.6.17, with all of the hassles of downgrading components that require 2.x
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by l4cache -
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There are various influences, so at least I tried to compensate for that with enough attempts.
For me, good stable results with minimal differences.
The helix code is pretty immune to additional compiler options that can speed up things for flac for example.
As you can see fast-math like @john33  uses it at least gives a few %.
There're some difference between dirrerent CPU microarchitectures I think.
If my result is anything to belive, even avx-512 can bring some improvements.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_dsp_effect
Last post by mudlord -
Thats a side effect of the algorithm. Not much can be done at all.

Rubberband iirc was a phase vocoder/FFT based tempo stretcher. There is others around that could be investigated, iirc paulstretch is a more extreme version of the methods in rubberband.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_dsp_effect
Last post by cwb -
As a test I installed the old SoundTouch component and an old DSP Effect 0.43 in a Portable foobar2000 ver. 1.4.8. I had neglected to remember that the old SoundTouch component only allows going to -50.00 %. Whereas with DSP Effect today, my typical use has often been in the -55.00 to -70.00 % range.

Using -50.00 % as the lowest setting, I thought both the old component and DSP Effect 0.43, utilizing SoundTouch, did an adequate enough job in lowering the playback speed without changing the quality of the audio much (according to my hearing).

Applying the same -50.00 % setting to DSP Effect 0.47 (Since that is what I currently have installed in the fb2k system installed version). I thought it did an adequate enough job too.

So @fooball  was on the right track about the more negative the number, the more likely anomalies (My word) are to "become increasingly audible".
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General - (fb2k) / Reading password-protected archives
Last post by JaapV -
Hello everyone,

recently, I discoverd fb2k's archive-reading capability. Wonderful! However, I cannot get it to read password-protected archives. I know the password, but fb2k doen't give me the opportunity to type it in. Am I missing something?

Regards, Jaap.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Device-Priority-SMP
Last post by regor -
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This one adds a setting to tweak the workaround timing (which is now disabled by default). [...]
Well, if I say I added a new setting, obviously it was not there before xd Let me know if that option in aggressive or 10 ms helps somehow.