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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?