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General Audio / Re: Newb Question - is it better to conver Mod Files to FLAC or MP3?
Last post by Porcus -
Quote from: rutra80 on
doesn't mean that you should get warnings while transcoding to FLAC that it won't be lossless because it doesn't support float32
Yes you should. You should get warned when trying to encode lossily into a lossless format.
It doesn't matter that the loss is inaudible - encoding lossless is supposed to be just that (lossless), and if the user wants to downconvert, let them override.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: DSD WavPack files with different codec values?
Last post by Porcus -
The screenshots make it look like a difference in how fb2k displays them. In that case it is fb2k-specific.

Obvious first debugging to see if there is something odd about the files:
* Make a new folder with copies of the WavPack files
* wvunpack them
* open the unpacked .dsf in fb2k, ffmpeg -i them ... to check for anything suspicious
* WavPack them with 5.0 and with the newest 5.5 and check that 5.0 and 5.5 look the same in fb2k for each file. (First shot: just drag and drop them onto wavpack.exe - it won't use the "high", but it is good to check.)
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Search-by-Distance-SMP
Last post by paregistrase -
Cool, now I can get my changes to last more than a few days xD
It opens the file browser alongside the .js, intentional?

There a message error in the browser map
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Check console 'Ctrl + Shift + K'. There are some errors on 'music_graph_descriptors_xxx.js' or 'music_graph_descriptors_xxx_user.js'
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Ha fallado la carga del <script> con origen "file:///home/xxxxxxx/bin/foobar2000/profile/scripts/SMP/xxx-scripts/helpers/music_graph_descriptors_xxx_user.js". Draw Graph.html:23:1
music_graph_descriptors_xxx: Basic debug enabled music_graph_xxx.js:352:10
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_anti_influence' or 'style_secondary_origin' or 'style_primary_origin' has nodes not found on any other descriptor. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Tuareg Music music_graph_xxx.js:526:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_supergenre' has nodes not compatible with ASCII. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Forró music_graph_xxx.js:586:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_supergenre' has nodes not compatible with ASCII. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Laridé music_graph_xxx.js:586:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_supergenre' has nodes not compatible with ASCII. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Rumba Fusión music_graph_xxx.js:586:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_supergenre' has nodes not compatible with ASCII. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Éntekhno music_graph_xxx.js:586:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx Warning: 'style_supergenre' has nodes not compatible with ASCII. Check 'Graph nodes and links' section
	Étude 2 music_graph_xxx.js:586:13
music_graph_descriptors_xxx: Advanced debug enabled music_graph_xxx.js:619:11
Warning: music_graph() used within html. You should use music_graph_fordrawing() instead! (Unless this is a call from debug func)

but accepting the graph load.

Not related:

Is a placebo effect, or are the results more varied in terms of number of different artists within the search playlist with the last releases?
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General Audio / Re: Newb Question - is it better to conver Mod Files to FLAC or MP3?
Last post by rutra80 -
Wow what are DAWs doing here, man, you're making things more confusing than they already are.

It really is very simple:
Most music sources (like CDs) and listening hardware is 16bit. That you encode to lossy format like MP3 which is floating point internally, doesn't mean that you should get warnings while transcoding to FLAC that it won't be lossless because it doesn't support float32, nor should you play it back at 32bits, nor should you have info in Properties dialog that MP3 is 32bit. And you don't.

It even more applies to legacy MODs and derivatives, which mostly come from 8bit hardware and contain 8bit samples. That one gets a warning while transcoding to FLAC that it won't be lossless because it doesn't support 32bits, or that Properties say that MOD is 32bit, is a design fault of plugin or fb2k.

Sure we can share to normal people additional knowledge that some module formats support DSP, are synth capable, may benefit from internal float32 processing, or that there even are tracker-derived DAWs like Renoise where 32bits might be worthwhile for further mixing, but the main message is simple:

There's no point in converting MODs to lossless formats at bit-depths higher than 16.
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General Audio / Re: 16 bits is more than enough
Last post by biloute -
Quote from: bennetng on
An experimental format I made previously. Not really floating point but some sort of log approximation, with 8 or 12 bits quantization.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,121181.msg1005031.html#msg1005031

Half-float contains negative zero, infinity and NaN, so in practice the usable values are fewer than 16-bit integer.

The range of values are not the same but the total number of distinct value possible is the same.


For integer format: 2**32 = 4,294,967,296


For real, float, fixed, etc.. whatever the (sign, expo, etc..) layout:

fraction => 2**24 = 16,777,216
expo => 2**8 = 256

fraction * expo = 4,294,967,296 like for a int32 ou uint32






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General Audio / Re: Problem with forward slash artist name
Last post by Porcus -
Windows Explorer does not handle ID3v2.4 or APE tags in mp3?

Try the big slash.

Also, beware that e.g. foobar2000 treats slashes in
ALBUMARTISTSORTORDER <--- fb2k's preferred!
ALBUM ARTIST SORT <--- written by Mp3tag, but will be changed by fb2k if you change any tag in fb2k
different.
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General Audio / Re: Problem with forward slash artist name
Last post by senortruco -
Yes! in the app it shows correctly, but when I am trying to see it in the Windows app, it still shows as K;DA, no matter what i do :( I tried the other one with the BADDEST (APE) to see if it worked out, but no -.-. in Windows folder shows as noting.

Ugggh, is it just impossible?