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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Library Tree Discussion
Last post by paregistrase -
Quote from: aelklirion on
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.

Without problem.
If the torrent is already downloaded, you can move it to another folder or rename the files or folders inside it and continue to seed.
If it is a new torrent if you set torrent managing to manual, it opens a window that gives you a lot of options to select where it will be saved and how (renaming, make a folder, doesn't create a folder, etc)
also you can set various additional download folders (called categories) to music, movies, tv shows...
And if the page have an RSS, automatize the download with filters.
One thing that I like is that the program make a difference between the name of the torrent and the folders that create. So you can have the original name XXX-repack-group-page and rename the folder that create to Artist - Year - Album for example.
It not as advanced as foobar2000 (you can't script with tags) but with a little of planification you can have a very clean folder structure that can be used with foobar2000 and kodi, if you don't modify the files with this programs of course. If you rename or tag the files with foobar the torrent will not work anymore. In kodi is not a problem because it uses .nfo files and in foobar you can use external tag plugin to avoid file modification.

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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Tagging via properties no longer works
Last post by dpc666 -
Nevermind, the problem seems to depend on the wineprefix after all. I don't know what part of it is at fault, but it's definitely not due to foobar2000. Thread can be closed I suppose.

Edit: It was the Windows version selected in winecfg.  ::)
Win7 breaks tagging. Win10 doesn't. God knows why.
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Support - (fb2k) / Tagging via properties no longer works
Last post by dpc666 -
I use Foobar2000 in a 32 bit wineprefix on Arch Linux.

It's hard to say when this bug appeared, but it definitely carried over from before I created a clean wineprefix recently, and I did not have this problem before version 2.

The problem is that I cannot tag files via context-menu -> properties. When I edit anything and hit "apply", the view reloads and displays the previous tags again. "Ok" doesn't work either.

All my music is on an NTFS filesystem mounted with full read/write permissions.

There is no error being displayed in the console.

For some reason I cannot go into safe mode. When I try to launch into safe mode, I just get an error popup saying "Internal error - one or more of the installed components have been damaged; please run the foobar2000 installer again." But reinstalling it doesn't help. Why would safe mode fail to launch because of "damaged components" when its whole point is to disable components?

F2k version: 2.1.5
Wine version: 9.6-1

Codec of files I was using for testing:
Tool : LAME3.99r
Tag type : id3v2.3|id3v1
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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.