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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by john33 -I hope that you, too, have a fun project, no matter its usefulness or size of its user base.Amen to that, it's what's kept me sane in the last 20years!
I hope that you, too, have a fun project, no matter its usefulness or size of its user base.Amen to that, it's what's kept me sane in the last 20years!
LAME's last quality update was over 10 years ago. Developers squeezed everything they could from MP3.
It is mature and stable encoder, tested by many experienced members here.
If you believe people will suddenly change to Helix you are wrong.
All I can see in this thread is developers wasting their time on something useless only to get yelled at in return.
The state of lossy music encoding is disheartening. Breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit, such as Vorbis and Musepack, faded before reaching an apex because the authors changed the priorities for some reason. LAME also stalled. Yet killer samples to illustrate the flaws are still here. Some audiophiles with coding skills who patched psychoacoustic models disappeared. Dear visionaries who are good at math, has your mojo dried up, swallowed up by age, illnesses, streaming services and the petty bourgeois swamp? Or are all your efforts now focused on improving hash functions and quantum-resistant cryptography? It seems that only @bryant is still kicking with the development of lossless WavPack, although we recently discussed how to refine its hybrid mode. And QOA, the only fresh lossy codec in recent times, gains no traction as if the author released it only to prove the idea of doing better than Vorbis, hoping that Public domain license would encourage others to continue the undertaking.Developers are not robots or isolated nerds/geeks.
By the way, just to add to the above... I know it can be adjusted manually but it would be nice if it can "auto scale" so when people download my Darkone tweak theme, they don't have to do that.It's not a scaling issue.
I have fixed this in WavPack with this commit by rejecting such WAV files.On to the wrong.wavAdd refalac to the list, and thanks Bryant for the attention.
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As far as I can tell,
flac, TAK and OptimFROG reject it
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