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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: Descript Audio Codec (.dac) - 90x smaller than .wav?
Last post by przemyslawo -
Quote from: rc55 on
I had a quick play - had to install CUDA 11.7 and a large amount of python stuff to get this working.

If you're on Windows and struggling with the pytorch not compiled for CUDA error, remove all Nvidia CUDA software and Nvidia drivers, and reinstall both using the CUDA 11.7 installer.

Encoded a WAV file (CD Audio, 1h16m51s) - 69 seconds to encode, 145 seconds to decode on a 3080.

Command line:
python -m dac encode in.wav --output .\

I tried to install with pipx in my Debian, but as it was taking so long to download, I had to abort at 10 minutes of installation, and also I was afraid that it could install a lot of stuff and it would be difficult to remove afterwards. But this is not a problem, there is LXC in which I can make a clean installation without messing with the system; I will give a try when I have a spare time.

My PC is of 2017 and my GPU is a Nvidia GT 1030, comparing to a 3080 it is 12~15x slower. My question is if the decoding will be that slower too.

In archive.org there is some royalty free FLAC musics: https://archive.org/search?query=royalty+free+flac

/\ I will try to convert to .dac and will post the result here.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
Dear Case,
Please refer to Berman_disk_1.jpg, which I attach again for completeness.
When I right click the "1 Molto moderato 22:18" track I find Berman_track_1.jpg, while when I right click "1 Molto moderato ON AIR" I get Berman_track_1_OA.jpg"
Is this a key to solve the problem?
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
Quote from: Case on
I suspect the "ON AIR" text comes from your skin. Internally foobar2000 uses prefix "file://" for local file paths and paths from archive, like the zip file, use prefix "unpack://". I assume your skin think everything not starting with "file://" is being streamed so it adds that text. But this is just speculation.

Your screenshot shows that you are still fighting with the files from the zip. Normally foobar2000 automatically notices all changes to files in Media Library folder. Have you disabled library monitoring?

I'm against that library file deletion because it should never be needed. You should have foobar2000 monitor the library locations so it sees instantly everything that happens in said directories. If the library is on a "weird" network share (something running on old linux-based software) it may not support monitoring. For these purposes the library has a rescan button. These are accessible from the right click context menu of the media library directories.

On that note your earlier media library screenshot showed that you have "..\LR_Classical" and "..\LR_Classical\Beethoven <something>" and "..\LR_Classical\Schubert <something>" added as media library locations. Just having "..\LR_Classical" is enough, all subdirectories like that Beethoven and Schubert gets included automatically. Unless if they are hidden directories. The media library excludes hidden paths.

I don't know how to design a skin. I found the skin somewhere, after a long search. I have to learn to use fb2k by "try and see", and with the kind help of people like you. Is there another way?

Where can I look for the prefix "file://" for local file paths? And ON AIR?

I don't disabled neither Rescan on startup nor Monitor for changes while running.

I deleted the zip file from the HDD.

You wrote "I assume your skin think everything not starting with "file://" is being streamed so it adds that text. But this is just speculation." Where can I look for this?

I said before that I use several instances of portable fb2k. Everyone of them in a separate subfolder of the same USB HDD. This HDD includes also several folders: LR_Classical, HR_Classical, and so on, in which each music album is included as a subfolder. ALL in the same HDD, with Windows 10.
I use this structure because some of the collections are quite large, specially L(ow)R(es)_Classical, and I thought that managing all files in a unique fb2k could be dangerous.

You wrote: "On that note your earlier media library screenshot showed that you have "..\LR_Classical" and "..\LR_Classical\Beethoven <something>" and "..\LR_Classical\Schubert <something>" added as media library locations. Just having "..\LR_Classical" is enough, all subdirectories like that Beethoven and Schubert gets included automatically. Unless if they are hidden directories. The media library excludes hidden paths."
I don't understand. Could you please explain?

Many thanks. Cheers.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
A weirdness or two, though. (Got 1.4.3 on this computer and replicated with that.)

-e -l <N> would never pick order = N. At most order = N-1. Or do I misinterpret the flac -a output? (I read the "order=" part, which does not start at 0. order=7 means coefficients enumerated 0 through 6, and was the highest I got out of -l7.)
Anyway, a bunch of .ana files attached.

Also, with -b48000 - so the blocks "nearly repeat", but not exactly - the predictor coefficients do vary quite a lot between the frames. However as a sine should be perfectly replicable with order = 2 - presuming sufficient precision, which I am too lazy to check out - there would be a whole lot of different predictor vectors that would make for equally good prediction.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_upnp
Last post by Snowknight26 -
Quote from: SimBun on
I personally use the paid version of MinimServer which is probably the closest thing you'll get to foo_upnp, but if you haven't customised foo_upnp the free version of MinimServer will do much the same.

Depending on your use case, though, there doesn't seem to be a equivalent to foobar2000 + foo_upnp. In my case, for example, I have playlists set up in foobar2000 and basically have BubbleUPnP on my phone set up connect to that foobar2000 instance where all my playlists are accessible as-is. Any dynamic playlists (recently added, recently played) that are specific to that foobar2000 instance carry over perfectly. Using another UPnP server like MinimServer means you now have to maintain separate playlists or find a way to automate syncing of playlists from foobar2000 to MinimServer. But you're right, if your goal is simply to library separately from foobar2000, then MinimServer sounds like it fits the bill. For everything else, foo_upnp was a godsend since effectively presented everything you had in foobar2000 remotely.