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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -
@Case thanks for having a look. An idea why the problem would show up recently? Even with the 16/8-bit-only code one would need many more input samples when downsampling (e.g., three times more when going 48000 down to 16000).

Indeed I think it would probably be rather neat if the PCM reading code would always provide float samples, no matter the original input format. This at least would get rid of the special code for 8-bit samples and shrink the code base a bit.

To be honest, I don't know why RealNetworks has the resampling step within the encoder anyways. I would have imagined the proper place is *between* the WAV reading code and the encoder.

@jaro1 I think in this case, RealNetworks isn't to blame, it's something that broke "recently".
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by jaro1 -
Thanks for an explanations and all the infos.
Hopefully the problem is not complex and can be solved by implementing some new or correcting an existing command or logic. Unfortunately, this does not automatically mean time savings to solve it..
I'm just surprised that this problem hasn't been fixed in the RealNetworks days and has arrived in the year 2024.. unbelievable. Thought i do not know the genesis of this issue, or if there is an encoder version from the past, that downsamples correctly.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Case -
I have been looking at this issue after you mentioned the downsampling problem. The sr_convert function only converts 1152 frames of audio data to float as that was what I assumed the encoder eats. But the resampler can consume a lot more data. Perhaps the best solution would be to convert all data to float during read.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: help setting up Georgia-ReBORN please
Last post by TT -
Quote from: telboy1812 on
your going to hate me i installed new restarted foobar and gas the same playlist manager nothing like the one in your screenshot

i use a trackball mouse

It is not in the playlist manager popup window, but it is in the playlist top bar like shown with the red rectangle in the screenshots...
Go to the playlist ( no top menu button active, if you have a panel button active, i.e Details, Library, Biography, click on it again )
then Shift + right click on a track row for advanced playlist context menu > Panel properties... ( at the bottom ).
Click on the "Export button" and save props.json file and then click on the "Clear button" and OK.

Now the player is using factory settings; you should see text in the playlist top bar if you move your mouse to the red rectangle
area like shown in the screenshots. With default factory settings, the auto-hide feature is enabled, you can disable auto-hide in
top Menu > Options >  Playlist > Playlist manager > Auto-hide.

Please attach your saved props.json file here.

-TT
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by jaro1 -
First of all thanks for the binary file, Wombat!
I know this is a discussion primarily about encoder code optimization and not about the features and impact of different compilers on the result, so I don't want to clutter it up with a proxy issue here, sorry for that.
So just in short.. somehow it is going crazy on my side, as i'm unable to reproduce the previous results with same setup anymore.. everything is simply slower today.. anyway, the speed-up from "Release 1.4.3" to last git with GCC14.1 does not seem to happen in case of Clang. Rather your binary has the same encoding performance as NetRanger's Clang binary of "Release 1.4.3", at best.
I've to look, whats wrong here and repeat it later.. There doesn't seem to be any background stuff issue, nor fb2k converter settings impact this.
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Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs
Last post by Meowdori -
If i wanted to hear something in shitty, degraded quality for some weird reason i'd use a realtime processing software rather than purposefully storing low-quality files on my disk. What if i wanted to use the high quality original material later?