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CD Hardware/Software / Re: EAC crashes on error - secure vs. burst mode?
Last post by JimLS -
Quote from: korth on
Yeah just checked it here and does the same.
Changing in Windows
Control Panel > AutoPlay > Removable drive (or Settings > Bluetooth & devices > AutoPlay > Removable drive)
to 'Take no action' or 'Ask me every time' stops it.
Hmmm.  I made those settings and it still doesn't work if I start EAC first.  Not a big deal - I can just insert the cd first.  Thanks for the help.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
Quote from: bennetng on
Also, -b8192 at 88.2/96k is not as safe as at 176.4/192k, a portion of materials may still work best at -b4096 or -b4608.
My observation too. (Let's see how it still holds up when my computer is donw with the upsamples to various frequencies ...)

Quote from: bennetng on
As for my arrangement with bizarre spectrum, honestly I did not know the performance of -8pe is really this bad when compared to -8 alone (1780kbps -> 1779kbps).
That isn't -8pe bad, that is -8 good  :))

Quote from: bennetng on
Both are same?
Oops. Edited! https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=125366 , four most recent posts.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by bennetng -
Also, -b8192 at 88.2/96k is not as safe as at 176.4/192k, a portion of materials may still work best at -b4096 or -b4608. As for my arrangement with bizarre spectrum, honestly I did not know the performance of -8pe is really this bad when compared to -8 alone (1780kbps -> 1779kbps). I expected at least around 5-10kbps reduction.

Quote from: Porcus on
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122949.msg1016038.html#msg1016038 and https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122949.msg1016038.html#msg1016038 .
Both are same?
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
@Wombat : How about against -8p and -8pb8192?

For CDDA, I made the following observation: The "5" in  -8 -A "subdivide_tukey(5)" would nearly be enough to catch -8p on size (and I think it did catch -8e) and be twice as fast. But if you were willing to take the slowdown from the "5", you should be willing to take the slowdown of the -8p too, as it would save more bytes per second:
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123025.msg1016625.html#msg1016625
More writeup here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123025.msg1016761.html#msg1016761 (I wonder from vague memory: did 1.4.3 speed up -r7?)
Highly dependent on build, but 20 percent more time for using a CLANG build isn't that much when we are talking settings that might be several times as slow as -8.
BTW, hann = tukey(1). Or well maybe due to some roundoffs, only slightly different.

For high resolution material, there is still something to -e - and as you point out, results vary across files.
The hypothesis is that is isn't the high resolution per se, it is that the ultrasonic part is pretty much empty - explaining also why some dark ambient (low treble content) benefits from -e. Four most recent posts from this user: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=125366
(edit: corrected link).
(Wonder how much one could tell by FFT-ing the signal and considering the top octave or so. Heck, the block will already be windowed.)
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: A possible Xing VBR tag issue
Last post by Peter -
foobar2000 looks for two consecutive MP3 frames that look like they belong to the same stream before starting to actually look at their contents.
This is the best way of skipping garbage in MP3 files without reading into nonsense that I could devise and it has worked very well for some 20 years now.
I'm not changing it to mitigate someone else's bug, it would certainly do more harm than good.