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Lossless / Other Codecs / Lossless music stores (files!) not offering FLAC, but other lossless compressed?
Last post by Porcus -
Subject length limit. Question is, are there music stores that offer lossless files for download (not talking about silver discs nor streaming services), and where you can get it in a lossless compressed format - but not in FLAC?

IOW, is FLAC closing so much in on total dominance that if it is offered lossless, then FLAC is an option unless the only option is uncompressed (like Beatport)?
Even in just a resolution where you have to choose another (compressed) format?
(An example the other way around, is Qobuz which cap their WMAL support at CDDA, but apparently supply FLAC and ALAC at all resolutions they offer.)
I'd be surprised if there isn't a single store around offering DTS-compressed DSD-file for sale, that is losslessly compressed and obviously not available as FLAC. But others?

It makes for a facepalm when >8 channel files are delivered as WAVE only, sometimes even one file per channel ;  after all there are compressed format that handle a higher channel count, WavPack has done so since ages, and then there are containers.
(But no "corporate codecs", right?  Both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD-MA are capped at eight channels, like FLAC?)
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by darkflame23 -
Love this component, but just a couple of anomalies:

Even though I have tooltips turned on, I don't get a readout of the note frequency when I hover over a frequency bar, like I did with the old Musical Spectrum. Any way to do this?

Also, the vertical Octave divider lines don't coincide exactly with the actual frequency bars, which look kinda messy. If there's a setting I'm missing, please let me know. I'm trying to get as close to the old Musical Spectrum settings I had, as possible.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -
Thanks, yeah, seems you're correct. It appears most sources consider the correct bias to be 128. Fixed!

edit: Actually, thinking about this, I may have managed to confuse myself. If 0x80 (128) is the midpoint ("0.0"), and 0xFF (255) is "1.0", then shouldn't have -127 be correct in the first place? Either way, given that the range isn't perfectly symmetric, shouldn't there be a DC bias either way? So isn't "-127.5" technically even more correct?

Also, perhaps I should multiply with 256 instead of 255 to scale it properly?
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel
Last post by marc2k3 -
By default, the first value of multi-values tags is already used...

Code: [Select]
$meta(artist,0)

You can override this by adding this inside the panel as the first line of code.

Code: [Select]
DEFAULT_ARTIST = '$if($stricmp(%album artist%,Various Artists),$meta(artist,0),%album artist%)'
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Unexpected Behaviour with Multi-Value Performer Tag in M4A Files
Last post by marc2k3 -
According to this...

https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/appendices/tag_mapping.html#performer

Picard doesn't even write performer to m4a files. I've tested this in the past on windows but not checked recently. I guess the page could be outdated???

I know for sure foobar2000 can't read the TCML/IPLS id3 frames Picard writes to mp3 files. If you ask fb2k to write performer, it uses TXXX frames.

edit: I tested the windows version of picard and it seems to match the behaviour I linked to above - they're not written. Testing an mp3 copy of the same album does get written so the performer entries are definitely there for the release I'm testing.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel
Last post by KthugS -
Hello everyone!
Among the samples, “Last.fm Bio + Images” was used.
There are a lot of artist folders in the "\js_data\artists" path.
Due to the musicbrainz artist field format, folders are created for each participating artist, such as "feat.", "with", "&", etc., and images are downloaded.
Most of the downloaded images are album artist images, ignoring the participating artists, and most of them are the same images only with different folders.
Over the course of a few days, the amount of duplicate images alone approaches 1GB.

Is it possible to make this create folders based on album artist?
1. Use the track artist field only in the case of Various Artists.
2. Only use the first artist in the “%ARTISTS%” field
3. Filter only the first artist in the “%ARTIST%” field?

Anyone experiencing a similar problem?

Except for this situation, I really like musicbrainz's method.  :D
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Georgia-ReBORN - A Clean foobar2000 Theme
Last post by regor -
I am not sure what are you trying to test with that, it's not doing what you think it does. New requests should also be directly skipped on shutdown.

Anyway here is a test file which crashes if you delete "window.IsUnload = true;" line; but works fine with it. Note the script will try to access a list of urls and close foobar immediately. So upon foobar restart, it will do the same and effectively make it unusable unless the last line of code closing foobar is removed.

Also note the interval ms affects how it's handled. 30 ms seems to work fine, but higher settings may crash too.  For sure 3000 ms will crash, there is a small window of time between the shutdown request and the actual shutdown and you have to use that.

That can be avoided with a direct abort routine at the callback and a stack of request similar to your approach, but the stack should be managed at the callback (not saying all this is needed, just that it would be the best approach, but the other one may be good enough).

Alternatively, wget or similar may be used to retrieve data from web without all these problems... it may be wise to apply this fix to xmlhttp requests too (and beware of similar behaviors on any activeX object).