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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / foo_deaf looping + fadeout problem
Last post by Despair -
Having a small problem with the DEAF Module Decoder https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_deaf (I'm not sure if this counts as 3rd party since it's uploaded by Peter). I'm trying to convert Deus Ex's .UMX files (apparently they're basically .MOD files?) but I can't seem to get the conversion to do looping and fadeout as there appear to be no options for them in foo_deaf. There is an option for infinite looping under "Decoding", but then the file conversation never succeeds. There are loop and fadeout options for foo_dumb, in the old foobar, but these also fail to convert with loop and fadeout. They also have a silent section at the start of some tracks, which also converts. I'm not sure why, as foo_deaf does not have this.

Another option is the OpenMPT Module Decoder https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_openmpt54 (also by Peter) but this yields a sound that is very different from playback both in game and via foo_deaf/foo_dumb. It does convert with loops and fadeouts, but bizarrely, opening the resulting flac file in audacity showed the file as empty, despite it playing properly in foobar. I'm really not sure what to make of it...

Any ideas? I'd rather not resort to converting and manually adding loops via audacity.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner
Last post by darkflame23 -
Yes, thanks Case, it was my brain fart, sorry...

Is there a way to get the "LUFS" text removed from the end of the LUFS scan results/readouts? I just want the number as the LUFS text is already the Column header in my Playlist, and it takes up a lot of unneccesary room.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner
Last post by Case -
Like I said in the earlier post, you are not using the context command that scans for the clipping information. Historically this component only scanned True Peaks and optionally True Peaks and clipping info + peak positions (that's why there are the different context entries for them). Then feature requests popped up and I didn't want to fill the context menu with all the different modes, so all extra scan modes were toggles in the settings.

If you want the clipping info, you need to use the context command "Scan True Peaks and positions...".
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Scientific Discussion / Re: Are complex-input FFTs really useful for audio analysis?
Last post by TF3RDL -
Also, I think this topic is little bit de-railed; it went into performance improvements of multichannel audio spectrum analyzers by using complex-input FFTs, which is true considering calculating two or more FFTs can have significant performance impact. But what I really mean is that is complex-input FFT as in spectrum of I/Q signals in SDR really useful for analysis of stereo audio, which is basically the same minus the "unscrambling" operation?

I don't see any reason you would want the scrambled output when you could have the regular unscrambled one instead. 
Perhaps, it could be a different (but possibly novel) way to visualize stereo audio spectrum (higher amplitude on one graph than other means closer to 90 degrees out-of-phase on certain frequencies, as opposed to full 180 degrees out-of-phase as in traditional L/R spectrum analyzers), where two differently-colored graphs represent magnitude part of complex-valued FFT; the first one is as it is, and the second one is same as the first, but the order is flipped since the input to the FFT data is complex-valued, thus not symmetric in the full FFT output and to be able to visualize complex-input FFTs with the frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz and a logarithmic frequency scale