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FLAC / Re: FLAC - stored main chunk length differs from written length
Last post by bennetng -I have updated this again with this commit.Thanks. The treatment looks very comprehensive so even uninformed users will get alarmed by the error messages and discourage them from creating problematic files.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Playback Statistics Questions
Last post by anamorphic -It might be useful to add a couple playlist columns - one for %rating% (database) and one for $meta(rating) (tags) - so you can compare.
After you right-click a track > Playback Statistics > 'Import statistics from file tags', and once you can see the two columns match (so database and tags have the same rating), and once you have done that for every track in the library, then it would be safe to enable Synchronize Tags option. (It only syncs when tracks are played, not immediately)
Side note: To display stars for ratings, use a display script such as %rating_stars_fixed% (database) and $pad($repeat(★,$meta(rating)),5,☆) (tags)
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by danadam -Opus encoded by Shotcut libopus.Doesn't look like libopus:
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]$ opusinfo lo2.opus
...
Encoded with Lavf58.29.100
User comments section follows...
encoder=Lavf58.29.100
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by sveakul -Crossover, any chance of a sneak visual preview of what you've been working on and when it might be released?You're right sveakul :-) I've been using the V2 of the component since mid-2023.Good to know it hasn't been abandoned!
Looking forward to this still!
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel
Last post by JesalRo -Not likely. Multi select in javascript panels is hard and I'm lazy.
Hello Mark
Hopefully in the future it will be possible to select multiple albums. I understand it will take a lot of work to do it, but thanks anyway.
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Kraeved -Take, for example, the point-n-click adventure game Broken Sword (1996), where the audio is mostly stored as 11025 Hz 16 bit mono. I'm going to compress a fragment, which contains speech and music, using Fraunhofer 3.1 (CBR), GXLame 5.3 (CBR & VBR), Helix 5.2.3 (VBR with forced resampling to 22.05 kHz), and Vorbis Aotuv 6.03 (VBR).
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$ mp3enc.exe -br 24000 -esr 11025 -if history.wav -of history.frau.11khz.cbr.br24000.mp3
$ gxlame.exe -b 24 -h history.wav history.gxlame.11khz.cbr.b24h.mp3
$ gxlame.exe -V# -h history.wav history.gxlame.11khz.vbr.v#h.mp3 (# = 24, 32, 40)
$ hmp3.exe -V24 history.wav history.helix.22khz.vbr.V24.mp3
$ oggenc2.exe history.wav -q # -o history.aotuv.11khz.vbr.q#.ogg (# = -1, 0, 1)
Bytes Kbps Filename
-------- ------ -------------------------------
34 913 17 history.aotuv.vbr.q-1.ogg
37 599 18 history.gxlame.vbr.v24h.mp3
41 814 20 history.gxlame.vbr.v32h.mp3
47 330 22 history.gxlame.vbr.v40h.mp3
50 173 24 history.aotuv.vbr.q0.ogg
50 648 24 history.gxlame.cbr.b24h.mp3
51 095 24 history.frau.cbr.br24000.mp3
51 584 25 history.helix.vbr.V24.mp3
56 562 27 history.aotuv.vbr.q1.ogg
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Kraeved -Code: [Select]
$ hmp3 -B12 gudki.11khz.mono.wav gudki.11khz.mono.mp3
pcm file: channels = 1 bits = 16, rate = 11025 type = 1
Layer III MONO 22050Hz 12kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frames | Bytes In / Bytes Out | Progress | Current/Average Bitrate
621 | 352800 / 24293 | 100% | 11.88 / 12.00 Kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Compress Ratio 6.885771%
$ hmp3 -B12 gudki.22khz.mono.wav gudki.22khz.mono.mp3
pcm file: channels = 1 bits = 16, rate = 22050 type = 1
Layer III MONO 22050Hz 12kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frames | Bytes In / Bytes Out | Progress | Current/Average Bitrate
621 | 705600 / 24293 | 100% | 11.88 / 12.00 Kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Compress Ratio 3.442885%
$ hmp3 -B12 gudki.22khz.stereo.wav gudki.22khz.stereo.mp3
pcm file: channels = 2 bits = 16, rate = 22050 type = 1
Layer III mode 1 STEREO IS-3 22050Hz 24kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frames | Bytes In / Bytes Out | Progress | Current/Average Bitrate
622 | 1411200 / 48744 | 100% | 23.80 / 24.00 Kbps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Compress Ratio 3.454082%
$ hmp3 -B12 gudki.44khz.stereo.wav gudki.44khz.stereo.mp3
pcm file: channels = 2 bits = 16, rate = 44100 type = 1
ENCODER INIT FAIL
a) gudki.11khz.mono.mp3 and gudki.22khz.mono.mp3 are malformed files (24 293 bytes), apps refuse to open them
b) gudki.22khz.stereo.mp3 is the only file here that is both encoded as expected (24 kbps) and playable
c) gudki.44khz.stereo.wav is not encoded with this setting at all, but the error message is quite vague
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General Audio / Re: Test files needed
Last post by soundping -10
3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel
Last post by Ralf_Reddings -The component can do a great many things without a UI. In Columns UI, you can hide panels so that's easy enough...I understand much better, I am satisfied with my findings and will proceed with a few example projects in the coming week, thank you for explaining to me all of this, especially the last part.