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Validated News / AccurateRip 21 years old
Last post by spoon -
21 years back, we created AccurateRip, previously secure rippers required frame re-reads to detect errors, which has a detection hole, in that an error might not be random and repeat. Even C2 has a detection hole, so the idea was to compare rips against a central database was born. The idea here is there is only effectively one true error free rip, and any errors would not be present of someone else's different disc / drive.

Shortly after developing AccurateRip we found out pressings were an issue, that is when a CD is made it is made with an offset called the pressing offset. When the stocks of CD run low, they send it off to be remanufactured, and a new offset is introduced. This made the work of AccurateRip much harder, especially as part of the initial phase of AccurateRip is to find the drive offset (previously it was done manually).

Fast forward to today: AccurateRip has processed half a billion rips!, knows there are 5 million unique audio CDs out there, and has half a million people using it over the years. Impressive numbers for something which started small.

We are introducing meta.accuraterip.com as a community meta database (track titles), based on a few principles behind accuraterip, that the correct result is the result verified by multiple people. This is to replace gnudb which has gone rouge.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_uie_lyrics3
Last post by ngs428 -
I am working to overhaul my lyrics collection..  I have Foobar2000 v1.6.17.

I have LSP3 v 0.6 with multi source lyrics v0.56 installed. 
I also have Open Lyrics v1.8 installed.

They both have their benefit.  Are there other lyrics programs I am missing that would be helpful? 
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
Yeah, that is in the other thread - you explained why it does worse, but that raises the question of when it starts doing horrible.
The good news is that it behaves sane at the reference encoder's defaults. Also in the other thread.
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General Audio / Re: Another audiophile "expert"
Last post by ojdo -
The switch is cute: $680 for an audiophile 4-port 1G network switch. It even sports an SFP port to go optical; all in the name of sound quality.
And everything sounds different, and of course the more-money-for-more-equipment route surprisingly is supposed to sound bettter.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Library Tree Discussion
Last post by aelklirion -
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Not an easy task but if you were prepared to rename your files..
I don't want to rename, because all files are seeding in "transmission")
Maybe I can add additional update command in the right place in the code?
Dunno about Transmission, but with qBittorrent you can rename files and folders of torrents from within qBittorrent and still have them be recognized by the client and seeded. I do it all the time, I rename the contents of downloads to conform with my music library's organization and also rely on qBT to keep track of the files, hash check them to ensure data integrity etc.

Yeah, Transmission is a good torrent client but lacks of management functions.
You can try to export the torrents from Transmission to qBittorrent with transmission-to-qbittorrent and change the structure with the rename and move features of qBittorrent. Is very useful to use alongside foobar2000 and Kodi. You can have custom names and folder structure according to your needs and continue to seed the files without problem
How do you customize folder structure with qBT? Didn't know that was possible and it would be useful for the occasional torrent where the uploader chose an [Artist name]/[Torrent name]/[Albums] structure instead of the usual [Torrent name]/[Albums] one.
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MP3 / Adobe Flash and Media Encoder CS6 MP3 encoders
Last post by Klymins -
Hello. I really love MP3's those encoded by Adobe Flash CS6, and MP3's those encoded by Adobe Media Encoder CS6 are also can be very good at some bitrates (unavailable with Flash), so what are the MP3 encoders those are used in Adobe Flash CS6 and Adobe Media Encoder CS6?
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General - (fb2k) / Re: foobar2000 for mac
Last post by Harken -
Hi all!
Is there currently a working MAC last.fm scrobbler for f2k? If not, how might i go about creating such a thing. (the furthest i got into programming was some elementary python and C++ stuff)