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General - (fb2k) / Re: Unexpected audio format change - strange output files created
Last post by Peter -
Thanks for the bug report.
Main problem is that "no DSP reset" mode treats all input as one audio stream and partitions output back into tracks, making use of original track lengths + reported DSP latency. After something failed in the middle, the output no longer really makes sense and the conversion goes off the rails, precisely as you've observed.
For the next version, I changed it so it fails converting remaining tracks (no further output written) after such error.
I think you want to convert each album as a separate batch. What you currently do can cause last samples of album N to be mixed up with first samples of album N+1 in the list.
I'll keep this scenario in mind for a future update, perhaps I can add no-DSP-reset-between-album-tracks as a feature so you don't have to convert each album manually.
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Klymins -
Thanks Case, but i want to use MP3 in most cases. Plus, these codecs are not supported for most tasks including Adobe Flash. Plus, MP3 is very flexible: supports mono and stereo in one file, can be edited with notepad (you can combine two MP3's with notepad and they will play), very strong (stays playable even after being distruptively edited by notepad) and more.
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Case -
Those Adobe tools aren't limited to MP3. They support newer AAC audio format. The HE-AAC format they support is meant for low bitrate use and beats MP3 hands down.
There are multiple HE-AAC audio encoders. And there is newer option, xHE-AAC. And you could try open Opus format too.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: New VST adapter for foobar2000
Last post by Case -
foobar2000 is an audio player, not a DAW. It's highly unlikely that the internal architecture optimized for fast and efficient audio playback will be broken and changed to make VST plugins able to update their UIs in realtime. The VST support was added for audio effect supports, not for eye candy.
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MP3 / Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Klymins -
Hello. MP3 does not support 18kbps and 20kbps but Adobe Flash CS6 can encode 20kbps, and Adobe Media Encoder CS6 can encode 18kbps and 20kbps. How this is possible? And, is encoding 12kbps (and maybe 10kbps and 14kbps) possible with this way while it's not supported? If yes, which encoder can export (preferably good quality) sound with 8-10-12-14kbps range? (16kbps sounds very good if it's encoded with Adobe Flash CS6 but 8kbps does not sound very good.) My target sampling rate is 11025Hz and i'm targeting CBR Mono.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: exhale - Open Source USAC encoder
Last post by Case -
Note that the main page of that MPEG-H decoder states that it supports only baseline MPEG-H level 4 profile. But I just gave it a super quick test, it refuses all non-MPEG-H files in its transport decoder. The binary is also 11% smaller suggesting it's missing a lot of stuff.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel
Last post by StuPC -
Thanks for the updates, Marc - my foobar is looking ace thanks to your hard work! :-)

One small question - this is my current sort pattern for the Smooth Browser sample:

$if(%date%, %date% | %album% | %album artist% | %discnumber% | %tracknumber% | %title%,zzz%path_sort%)

How can I show the most recent releases at the top (rather than the oldest)?