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Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs
Last post by Squeller -
I was joking as you may guess, because you are joking/trolling? I thought the concept of "sound color" is weird. Why should you want to distort output with codec artifacts?
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by Porcus -
That sort of issue is not "exclusive to" external tags (though external tagsets could in principle have been a way to mitigate it).
Say, you got a 5.1 stream and a stereo stream in the same file. No reason that ReplayGaining the two would give the same numbers.

Surely it would be "possible" to condition it upon the audio properties, so that say a DVD rip with AC-3 and PCM may be identified from the content - but now we are approaching a remote corner usage ... or?
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Polls / Sound colors of codecs
Last post by Klymins -
Hello. This is my first poll, I hope I'm doing right.

My answer: Sound color is very important for me and I prefer a good sound color over higher quality. My favorite codec is MP3 and my favorite encoder is Adobe Flash CS6 (https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,125914.0.html and looks like FhG). I prefer 16kbps MP3 over the original sound for music in most cases. I hate Opus and all neural codecs.
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Support - (fb2k) / Bitperfect audio in v2.x?
Last post by RJVB -
Back from gone for a long time without having followed any of the evolutions, developments etc. so forgive me if this has already been asked, discussed and buried under a tag I didn't think of searching for.

I've been using Foobar2000 for years as the main driver on an old netbook that's perfect as an audio source for the AV amp in my stereo system. I use wasapi to send the raw, unconverted bit stream into the amp over HDMI, and then let the amp do its DAC magic.
I was still running v1.5, and thought I'd update.

After an initial scare about the UI (the "Columns UI" component wasn't transferred automatically), installing the other components I used to use and going over the settings I did a test with one of my files from 2L Recording (5:1 96kHz) and was disappointed to see the amp indicating 48kHz stereo instead. That's with the "non-exclusive" HDMI output.

I don't see a specific "wasapi" output device in the list.

Is the kind of playback I'm looking for still possible in FB2000 v2.x and if so, how do I set it up? I haven't exhausted the various combinations of non-exclusive vs exclusive with or without using events that can be configured (via 2 different subpanels in the prefs ... practical :-/) but I never understood the difference between those in v1.x (they all still do what I'm looking for).

Thanks in advance!

PS: not looking for discussion about whether or not I could hear a difference in the results; I know I probably can't as long as the poor old netbook CPU can keep up ;)
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_wave_seekbar
Last post by Zao -
I don't remember if macfoo has components but regardless, no, I do not have any plans to touch this component again.
It would be a rough port to make as it uses a fair bit of Win32 and Direct3D.