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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Resampler plugin
Last post by francesco -thanks a lot for the 64bit!
I've compared both versions with the same output device/driver, Playback->Processing set to "none" (that's my change, since "apply gain" is the default value, this change did not affect the differences I heard, - just wanted to eliminate any "extra" factor), and no DSP processing. Is there any other options which impact the sound?If we entertain for a moment the idea that there is a difference, 2.x includes different decoders and supports more formats out-of-the-box. If your use case was for example that you didn't use your sound device as a DAC but bitstreamed data to external receiver for decoding, DTS-in-PCM container could produce differences. New foobar2000 decodes the audio data by default which could be done differently than receiver does it, receiver could do some dynamics processing or other alterations. And if the connection has limited bandwidth, like toslink, the receiver will only get stereo output instead of the proper multichannel audio.
GroupingCould I assign Album, Compilation, and EP to their own playlists? I know I can assign 1 playlist for the query with Activate / Target Playlist.
---Album >>> Album Playlist
---Compilation >>> Compilation Playlist
---EP >>> EP Playlist
INSERT INTO PlaylistUpdatable(path,subsong)
SELECT path,subsong
FROM MediaLibrary
WHERE artist='Metallica';
INSERT INTO PlaylistUpdatable(path,playlist_name)
SELECT a.path,b.playlist_name
FROM MediaLibrary a,
(SELECT 'Metallica' "playlist_name"
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Heavy Metal') b
WHERE artist='Metallica';
I wouldn't call the differences big, but it looks like you're writing about similar impressions to mine. I'd say that the v2 sound is "lighter", has shorter sound decay and worse sound stage (size is similar, but precision is worse). The differences may be driver related. If that's the reason you hear big difference you can try ASIO4ALL driver with 64bit v2. It used to be a very good driver, generally I don't recommend it today, but 64-bit version works quite good with f2k v2.The sound quality of Foobar2000 2.X is lower than version 1.X.I confirm. I have noticed the sound is quite different in v2 then in v1.6. It is not a subtle difference it is a big difference.
v1.6 is much softer, v2 sounds like there was some kind of limiter in the signal chain.
Windows 10/64 bit, ESI Juli@ ASIO, no bells and whistles just pure Foobar.
I tried to rip the DTS CD with foobar to flac, but it loses the DTS encoding,
Sorry to say but unless configured differently they produce 100% identical output.I've compared both versions with the same output device/driver, Playback->Processing set to "none" (that's my change, since "apply gain" is the default value, this change did not affect the differences I heard, - just wanted to eliminate any "extra" factor), and no DSP processing. Is there any other options which impact the sound? The "Advanced" settings look almost identical for both versions.