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AAC - General / Re: Why xHE-AAC files are not playing on PC and Android 10?
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
Quote from: degarb on
Woo boo!  No luck with Foo bar on Android... But,  this works to play xHE-AAC on my android 10,  it has excellent navigation buttons,  and most importantly it remembers your place when the battery suddenly dies:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mindmine.audiobook

The only problem remaining is that EZ CD audio converter only offers stock bit rates that only go down to 24 kps.   My goal was to use ffmpeg to record 64kps 38 hour speech opus files,  then convert them into 14 or  18 kps xHE-AAC, which would not be as annoying as the grain in the opus files sub 24 kps. 

Exahale doesn't have low bitrate abilities as I understand it.   Main concepts ffmpeg plug in is either $79 or $100,  I can't tell because of the video related wording,  that doesn't translate well to my audio focused brain.  And,  EZ cd audio converter does not go below 24 kps, in its gui, at least. (maybe a file or registry setting could be edited?)


Check again. FhG's one supports down to 12 kbps for stereo in CBR.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: exhale - Open Source USAC encoder
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
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Quote from: C.R.Helmrich on
Anyway, the newest exhale source revision (commit 49517c4d), apart from fixing the preset-f issue and increasing the coding efficiency slightly, includes code which, when activated, allows exhale to encode with up to ~300 kbps (stereo) and up to full CD/broadcast audio bandwidth (24 kHz).

It's interesting that you've seen genuine interest in doing that. I did a tiny  mod a while ago which added the ability to go up to 12, but still capped high frequencies to not go >20kHz for CDDA, because I felt that would be silly. And we have the example of libopus where they don't bother with such potential silliness!
If there's a mod that can go down to 6 kbps for stereo and 3 kbps for mono, it must be compared with FhG's one at a similar bitrate.
Like:
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exhale -b 6 input.wav out.mp4
Or:
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exhale lb0 input.wav out.mp4
And in help:
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(lb0-5)  low-complexity, low-bitrate Extended HE-AAC using eSBR and ePS at 2*#+6 kbit/s
(mb0-8)  low-complexity, medium-bitrate Extended HE-AAC using eSBR and ePS at 2*#+18 kbit/s
(-b [bitrate])  specify bitrate for Extended HE-AAC encoding (in kbit/s)
ePS = enhanced Parametric Stereo
And if the quality is better than FhG's one at the same bitrate in a listening test, that must be cheating! :D :D :D :D :D
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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: Design improvements from a professional UX Designer and foobar2000 fan
Last post by backslash -
Small update:

- Added "Playlists" (Playlist Manager) and "Radiostations" (Internet Radio) views and tackled how deal with the respective favorites in the sidebar too avoid sidebar clutter

- Some minor tweaks like adding search to playlist views (very obvious thing to do) and moving shuffle and repeat controls to the bottom bar because these controls are contextual based on played content. Makes no sense to have these functions on the top bar from a hierarchy perspective.

I am moving on exclusively with the sidebar variant because it's the only reasonable approach.

https://www.figma.com/design/zEiYTUsKIgpXcBWwJY7hnl/foobar2000?node-id=0-1&t=JUWFD2w7Bg2iSw2i-1

In case you are wondering how to navigate within Figma:

Hold space bar + left mouse button to move around
Hold control button + mousewheel to zoom in and out