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General Audio / Re: Album Art Downloader XUI
Last post by AlexVallat -
1. Yes, in the File Browser, click the Options link and in the "Specify path to find images" you can edit it, or add additional paths separated by |. So in your case you would want to add |%artist%-%title%.%extension% to the end of it.
2. This is entirely dependent on the source, so if a certain source gives better results from it then you could edit the script of the source you are using to do some search and replace of the artist string before using it, but it's not something that can be done in general.
3. Make sure you have only one Search window open, check the box, then close the window. It should remember it. Confusion arises when there are multiple search windows open, as the last one to be closed will update the settings and 'win'.
4. On the sources you want to search first, click the ... link in the bottom right of the source in the list, then check the "Search first" box. There's no way to set an absolute priority list, but Search First will make AAD search only those sources first. If they return no results, sources without Search First will be searched. Or you can click the Search button a second time to manually trigger searching the non-Search-First sources (Extend Search).
5. I'll take a look at beatport when I get some time, sure.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Old 1.x versions usage
Last post by Chibisteven -
This explains why it kept crashing in 86box when attempting to play or load something.  Now it plays and loads without crashing.  Emulating an old Pentium II with XP Service Pack 3 installed in the screenshot below.  Ran it out of curiosity a while back.  Figured it had something to do with SEE2 instructions not being supported.  And no, this is not how I normally listen to music as I simply wanted to see if foobar2000 1.5 series could actually run inside 86box which doesn't emulate any hardware newer than the year 1999.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Nick.C -
The "ERROR reading foreign metadata" message probably relates to the addition of a "fact" chunk to the processed file, which contains information relating to how it was processed. You could try adding the "--keep-foreign-metadata" parameter to the FLAC command line to see if that improves the situation.

The file size warning is unexpected. Can you please process the original WAV file with lossyWAV 1.4.2 and see if that works? That would indicate to me whether the error is new (since I re-started development) or very old.
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Validated News / Re: Winamp is opening its source code
Last post by forart.eu -
Well, according to many (here for example), the problem is the license that will be chosen for sources release: it'll not be FOSS very likely - since they consciously dribbled the "open source" term in this announcement - but proprietary, so this sounds a bit like "our software is definitely drowning, is anyone interested in relaunching it (for free) ?"

Nowadays it would be MUCH MORE interesting to have the foobar source code (under a FOSS license), IMHO.
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
Quote from: Hakan Abbas on
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Post the new version [0.2.8 maybe] of the encoder and decoder with lossyWAV support (lossyHALAC output format).
I can't make any firm promises for 0.2.8, but I might add LossyWAV support for the next version. And since a special work will be required for an option such as "LossyHALAC", I can think about this topic later.
How did you do lossyHALAC in this image: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=30749;image?
Maybe with correct block size in lossyWAV, we could achieve lossyHALAC. With the default block size, it's not working correctly.  ???
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MP3 - Tech / It's just me, or did MP3enc 3.1 sound better than LAME 3.97?
Last post by MihaiPopa12346 -
It's just me, or did MP3enc 3.1 (by Fraunhofer) sound better than LAME 3.97?
For this, I made a 15-second snippet of "Afrowell" by StephanAXX, encoded to MP3 using MP3enc and LAME and listened.
MP3enc beats LAME (at quality) at encoding to narrowband (8 kbps, 8 kHz, mono) while still keeping the bandwidth at maximum setting.
About the same at encoding to wideband (16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono).
Commands:
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mp3enc -if C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav -br 16000-esr 16000 -dm -bw 16000 -qual 9 -of "C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\afrowell.mp3"
mp3enc -if C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav -br 8000 -esr 8000 -dm -bw 8000 -qual 9 -of "C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\afrowell_8k.mp3"
lame -q 0 -k -b 16k -mm --resample 16k C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav C:\Users\Stefan\afrowell_lame.mp3
lame -q 0 -k -b 8k -mm --resample 8k C:\Users\Stefan\Desktop\AfroWell_15sec.wav C:\Users\Stefan\afrowell_lame_8k.mp3
File sizes:
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14.976 afrowell_lame_8k.mp3
15.336 afrowell_8k.mp3
30.024 afrowell_lame.mp3
30.240 afrowell.mp3
2.880.122 afrowell.wav
All files attached. Tell you your results (with these attached files or different files, by ABXing, listening and other tests)! Thanks for reading this topic!
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General Audio / Re: Album Art Downloader XUI
Last post by bigi -
Got to say I love this app Alex!  i have a ridiculous amount of digital music and am working my way through tagging and sorting at the moment; your app is saving me a lot of hassle!
I have a few questions and suggestions....
1. Is there a way to allow the app to check for the presence of different artwork files in the album/single folders?  for example, some of my collection have not got artwork embedded in the mp3/flac files, but have a file in the format <artist>-<title>.jpg in the folder instead, which it doesn't appear to be picking up.
2. This query is about the search logic - if a single or album artist includes "feat" or multiple artists, it fails to find a result - if i change the artist name to "," between artist names, it seems to work.  is there a way to make it handle this better?
3. Options Settings on artwork search - even when i update the option on a window to say close after selecting artwork, it still reverts back - is there a way i can hardcode the config anywhere or make this work?
4. also in the artwork search window, would it be possible to change the order the artwork is searched for from various sources?  A lot of my music is beatport for instance, but other sources find these matches as well sometimes; it would be great to be able to search these resources before other more extensive ones (like allcdcovers etc)
5. on a final note - beatport doesn't appear to be returning any results at the moment.....is it possible you could look at it?