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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by OtherSteve -
Quote from: Case on
I'm not certain how that image relates to DR Meter. But if the horizontal axel is frequency in Hz there doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary going on. Normal 44.1 kHz CD sourced material looks a lot like that apart from the dip after 8 (kHz?).

Though I have to wonder about hte scale, it is very strange and hard to read. Majority used for low bass frequencies, tiny bit for most audible mid frequencies and tiny slice for higher audible frequencies. Huge part on the visualization area on the right is wasted for frequencies that don't even exist in the source signal. And absolutely random frequencies chosen to be labeled. I have no idea where that red line is even positioned.

The scale I use is Octaves from C0 to B11, but I display it in Hz.  The red line has already been described by TF3RDL.  I didn't think this was a DR Meter issue, but as you pointed out, it seems very odd that there's a dip between 8kHz and about 12kHz.  Playing Toto "Rosanna" - which is almost completely flat across the 20 - 20kHz spectrum - there is still a slight dip in that region but not nearly as severe.  Must just be the way I have the component frequencies configured.  Thanks for the feedback everyone!
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Playlist-Manager-SMP
Last post by regor -
I never had such problems, even using foobar on another drives; but your problem may be those drives don't have a recycle bin. That's said I never saw such popups, just that you could not restore the files. That's a windows thing (not related to SMP) and probably you will get better support at another forum about it. Is beyond my knowledge (how to suppress such popups).

BUT if you read the manual PDF, at known problems and Advanced tips ("Recycle Bin on network drives"), there is a section related to network drives which should also work on USB keyss. I mean... if you don't find a way to suppress the popup, at least you can enable the recycle bin and it should work.

Finally, if you are willing to test a bit, I could look for another way to delete files without such prompt. So it can be enabled by users in cases like yours. If nothing helps, will either point you to the lines you have to remove to fully disable the .old files. The backups can be disabled by setting the backup interval to zero.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by jaro1 -
Quote from: Wombat on
Quote from: jaro1 on
There are various influences, so at least I tried to compensate for that with enough attempts.
For me, good stable results with minimal differences.
The helix code is pretty immune to additional compiler options that can speed up things for flac for example.
As you can see fast-math like @john33  uses it at least gives a few %.
Thanks for the info. To properly "grasp" those results I should have stated that fact to distinguish those two GCC binaries properly, so I apologize. Editing is no longer possible, so I just hope that your reply was not missed by an attentive reader.
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General - (fb2k) / Perry's ID3 Tag Viewer
Last post by Just_Addict -
I got this tool a long time ago. It seems it's no longer available on the web and the github repo seems to be dead.
I know it works as I used it in the past, but for the life of me I can't remember how to make it read MP3's.

It doesn't support drag&drop, it doesn't support passing the folder or filename on the commandline.
In short, I've got no idea anymore how I got it to do what it's supposed to do.
Searching the web has proven fruitless. Tried searching this forum but man the search feature don't like me as 9 out of 10 times I get no result, and then suddenly sometimes it works... so have no idea what I'm doing wrong here.

Anyone happen to have this tool and still knows how to use it?

As far as I know this was the only tool that shows the actual ID3 frames, and not how a player interprets them to readable names.
Suggestions for alternatives are welcome, But, primary requirement is that it has to show the actual frame names, not the name as e.g. Foobar2000 shows them.
And foremost, that it can show the PRIV frames.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by includemeout -
Quote from: [JAZ] on
oh, I forgot to reply to your second question.

No. nspsytune means "Naoki shibata psychoacoustics tuning", and it's one of the tunings of LAME. Although currently I don't remember if they are used in the most recent versions of LAME or not.

Helix is a descendant of the Xing MP3 encoder. As you said, RealNetworks bought Xing, so it also got the encoder.
The changes that have been done to this encoder here in this topic are mostly about preserving and improving the user experience, not about sound quality (other than, maybe fixing bugs due to uninitialized variables or similar).
Also, thanks for that, @JAZ
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Resampler plugin
Last post by KronosN4 -
Quote from: Case on
Since lvqcl still hasn't released a 64-bit version I wanted to see if I can improve the quick conversion I did earlier.
Here's a new build that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit foobar2000 versions, dark mode is supported and now fast mode works also on 64-bit variant.

I also added options to resample only chosen samplerates or to resample everything else but the chosen samplerates, so it should allow doing everything mod and mod2 versions did in one file. I didn't see sources for lvqcl's mod variants so this is my custom implementation.

Thanks for your work, it helps me a lot. I have not found any other resampler in foobar2000 that gives me the option to choose the phase response like SOX does.