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foobar2000 mobile / Re: Stop playback after each track in Foobar2000 mobile
Last post by zeremy -
Workaround :

You could disable from settings - Advanced - Show playback screen upon selecting track to play.

You would then have your playlist visible, and be able to select whatever track you want to play with whatever you need ( stop after current)  or (onetrack) or (onetrack+repeat)



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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Porcus -
The idea behind LossyWAV was to exploit FLAC's wasted bits feature. And IIRC the reason for 512 samples blocks, is that then the number of wasted bits can change rapidly enough as the signal does.
TAK handles wasted bits. MPEG-4 ALS does (but you need to invoke the "-l" switch). WavPack too - and it can also handle other "redundant LSBs patterns" ( https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,121770.msg1024689.html#msg1024689 , and WavPack's handling is also likely the reason why it does so well on the high resolution lossless corpus in ktf's test: see the Pokemon on page 7).

ALAC does not handle wasted bits. Either because ALAC generally sucks, or because Apple was worried about some patent.
Monkey's does not handle wasted bits. Unlike ALAC, which never was intended to be a heavy compressor, it is more of an oversight for Monkey's, I say: take a 16 bit signal, pad it to 24, and the ape compresses baaad.
OptimFROG does handle wasted bits, but it does not operate on such low block sizes. Indeed, both the animals seem to think that longer is better, and then there is this odd signal where they get outcompressed by FLAC's way to handle ultra-short changes in the signal. Here is one where OptimFROG does awesome, but only in its lightest mode (shortest blocks I guess): https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,124862.msg1038820.html#msg1038820
More: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122413.0.html
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel script discussion/help
Last post by Defender -
Quote from: marc2k3 on
Well you probably can't suppress the preferences popup or close it automatically. You need to take steps to ensure that doesn't happen by switching devices or stopping playback before unplugging.
This only happens (in my JS3 code) when the active output device is switched off. Nothing crashes, but a bit silly to have to click OK in the popup and restart playback. Minor issue of course.

The SMP code is different from what I want. That code can be set to automatically switch to the external output device without popup when it comes online and switches back to a prioritized other device when the external device goes offline (half of the times without the popup).  There is a lot of code to resume playback (and prevent the popup?) after switching when the active device goes offline.

I do not want to switch to the external device automatically since that device can come online when somebody else as an example wants to stream from his phone to that particular external device.

However the SMP code has all the bits and pieces of the functionality to create what I'm looking for.

I'll do a post about this in the Device-Priority-SMP thread.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel script discussion/help
Last post by Defender -
Quote from: marc2k3 on
I don't have removable devices to test but maybe you can use this Spider Monkey Panel script.

https://github.com/regorxxx/Device-Priority-SMP
Thx for the tip.

Made a testversion in which I removed all JS3 panels with my outputdevice code and installed the SMP code.

With some caveats the SMP code foobar switches to another output device when external output is switched off and continues playing.
Issue is that the Preferences/Playback/Output page does also pop up sometimes (not always) and needs an OK.
So in short the functionality I need exists within foobar.

I would prefer for uniformity (look& feel) to add the necessary code to my existing JS3 button, but a quick look at the underlying SMP code kind of freaked me out to try myself.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
According to the compression results of me with the music in me, the situation is similar to the majority of the tests I have performed. Of course this is the first trial. Better can be done. Lossywav is activated as a special mode for now.
They also perform low performance as I don't understand the reason for Alac, Optimfrog and Ape.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Porcus -
Some bitrates. Here I took the LossyWAV settings in Nick.C's signature. Lossy part only.
For those with a "+", then the first number is with block size set to 512, and the "+25" etc is the extra when using 2048 like HALAC does.
275   ...   ALS, smallest
287   +25   ALS -l
292    +9   TAK -p4m
318   +11   FLAC -5
327   +13   WavPack -hhx4
353   +27   FLAC -0r0
387     -   HALAC (2048 blocksize)
725         HALAC but without the identifying FACT chunk
1411        wav


Speeds then?

Comparing to FLAC encoded with -0r0 --no-md5sum --keep-foreign-metadata and block size set:
6.6 resp 7.9   FLAC encode to 2048 resp 512
9.0 HALAC encode

But HALAC decodes faster:
7.3 HALAC decode
11 FLAC decode these MD5-less files with --keep-foreign-metadata, maybe differing some tenths over block size used.