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Support - (fb2k) / Re: [BUG?] Foobar fails to function with Windows Sonic, why?
Last post by Case -
Quote from: sveakul on
Sorry for being a bit slow tonight, but is your response above saying that foo_out_spatial incorporates normal multichannel support (like foo_out_xaudio2 once included Spatial Output capability), and foo_out_xaudio2 is therefore not needed?
XAudio2 output is a entirely different, it for example will happily take up-to 64 channel input. It may not play such audio correctly as there are no defined channel mappings for these, but at least it will audibly play something. And I already replied earlier that it could be useful for Wine people who want to try to avoid resampling.

Quote from: mzso on
So it's also a whole different API as well?
What happens when I use this output, but I have the Windows spatial audio feature disabled?
Yeah, there are plenty of different ways to play audio on Windows.
With Spatial disabled the playback should match WASAPI shared mode pretty closely. With the exception that spatial engine seems to have its own sampling rate. So if your Windows mixer is not running at the spatial mixer's sampling rate, there will be extra resampling step before the windows mixer gets the signal.
At least on my machine the spatial engine only reports one supported input type: 48 kHz 32-bit floating point input.
I made foo_out_spatial report the engine's supported audio formats on first device open. If there are multiple supported formats it should print a list of them all.
The documentation for this API seems very lacking and at least Microsoft's github has some incorrect information.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner
Last post by Case -
Quote from: ngs428 on
  • Track and Album Max LUFS-M - Momentary (0.4 seconds?) measurement, as opposed to "I" which is the whole song
  • Track and Album Max LUFS-S - Short Term (3 seconds?) measurement, as opposed to "I" which is the whole song
400 ms (or 0.4 seconds) and 3000 ms (or 3 seconds) are correct. I'd just like to emphasise that the shown values are the highest readings recorded inside the track. Currently values are checked every 100 ms.

Quote from: ngs428 on
  • Track and Album LUFS-I - Similar to RG.  Measures the entire song.  How can I apply this value to normalize song's loudness levels?  When I use Case's ReplayGain DSP, does it use this value?  I can pick a loudness target of -14 LUFS, -18 LUFS, etc, but that is just the target.  What value is is using to match the target?  Is it still using the track and album gain or is it actually using the LUFS-I value, or does it matter?
The foobar2000's ReplayGain scanner in EBU mode has always calculated LUFS-I value, it is just converted into ReplayGain's format with a simple formula. Nothing has changed in ReplayGain or its behavior. I just added ability to show and tag this field for people who want to see it.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: [BUG?] Foobar fails to function with Windows Sonic, why?
Last post by mzso -
Quote from: Case on
@mzso - I created a Spatial Audio output component that Microsoft shouldn't be able to sabotage to stop working: https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_out_spatial.
Very fresh out of the oven but at least it plays audio.
Nice. I can confirm it works with Windows Sonic. With stereo sources as well.
Quote from: Case on
The Spatial Output component is completely independent output, it doesn't need anything else. It's a lot like WASAPI output except spatial mixer seems to have a fixed mixing rate independent of Windows mixer.
So it's also a whole different API as well?
What happens when I use this output, but I have the Windows spatial audio feature disabled?

Quote from: sveakul on
Quote from: Case on
The Spatial Output component is completely independent output, it doesn't need anything else. It's a lot like WASAPI output except spatial mixer seems to have a fixed mixing rate independent of Windows mixer.
Sorry for being a bit slow tonight, but is your response above saying that foo_out_spatial incorporates normal multichannel support (like foo_out_xaudio2 once included Spatial Output capability), and foo_out_xaudio2 is therefore not needed?
I think he clearly says that this is completely separate. The "spatial output" came from windows, but it got broken with the plugin.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner
Last post by Case -
Quote from: wojak on
could you please consider implementing PLR in your scanner. Recently you have incorporated LUFS so now PLR is the last thing we have to calculate with enormously long formula and it does not go to tags.
Added in version 0.6.9.

Quote from: Defender on
Can confirm that 0.6.8 with only RG+DR+POS enabled performs on the same level as 0.6.7 with RG+DR+POS+LRA.

Is your routine for calculating LUFS-S/M pretty much optimized already or do you expect to be able to implement some speedgains in the feature?

And second question: Would it be possible to use in 0.6.8+ the LRA method that was in use in 0.6.7 when scanning LUFS-S/M is not enabled?
I had actually introduced a very silly bug when I created a helper class for handling the libebur128 performed scans. The LUFS-M and LUFS-S values were always calculated every 100 ms even when the option was disabled. That is now fixed in version 0.6.9.

I could make LUFS-M and LUFS-S faster by calculating them less often. But then their accuracy would be somewhat reduced. I don't know at all how often other tools update these values, to my knowledge LUFS-M and LUFS-S were originally meant for live monitoring.

I'd also like to see if I could utilize the Peter's ReplayGain scanner optimizations to speed up the libebur library, I believe there is a lot of room for improvement there.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: [BUG?] Foobar fails to function with Windows Sonic, why?
Last post by sveakul -
Quote from: Case on
The Spatial Output component is completely independent output, it doesn't need anything else. It's a lot like WASAPI output except spatial mixer seems to have a fixed mixing rate independent of Windows mixer.
Sorry for being a bit slow tonight, but is your response above saying that foo_out_spatial incorporates normal multichannel support (like foo_out_xaudio2 once included Spatial Output capability), and foo_out_xaudio2 is therefore not needed?
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Porcus -
1.4.2 works. Problem shows up in FLAC only when using --keep-foreign-metadata
I wonder, is it so simple that the "c" in "1.4.3c" makes for wrong length of the FACT chunk?

Both report wrong length in foobar2000:
233031632wk 5d 14:12:05.632 (6 215 345 139 887 599 616 samples)
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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.