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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
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Since there is still no updated decoder DLL I sandboxed the process and added support for 32-bit foobar2000 while at it. Since the DLLs are only 64-bit the 32-bit component won't be able to decode anything unless the OS is also 64-bit.
And I listed the component on my component page: https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_input_halac
Thank you very much for your interest in the topic and for what you have done. You are great.
I have uploaded the 32-bit compiled versions of the Encoder and Decoder from version 0.2.7 to Github as SSE2 and AVX. The 32-bit version may experience slightly loss of speed during the Encode stage.

I'm trying to prepare the things I get notes for the 0.2.8 DLL version (Windows/Linux). And since the DLL will be independent of the file and the file path, Player will now have multiple language support.

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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by jarsonic -
I have not run into this issue, and have not heard of anyone else running into a similar issue during the entire development of foobar2000 2.x.  One thing to note is that ASIO tends to bypass Windows Audio Mixer settings, so make sure that the max volume levels for fb2k in the mixer are at the same level (100%) for both installations.  Also ensure that you have the latest audio drivers for your system.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -
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Not really my place to say, but there's a big no-no against sound quality claims without substantive proof.  How about uploading 30s samples demonstrating your point, so that other ears can do an ABX?
Unfortunately, I’ve got no high quality microphones nor the ears audio model to make such recording, but everyone can quickly make a test installing the second version of Foobar “portably” – 2 Foobar versions can be run parallelly – which should allow you to quickly switch between them. Just make sure to use a decent DAC and heaphones to hear the soundstage changes.
A portable installation of Foobar2000 can be easily removed when not needed.
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Support - (fb2k) / Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -
The sound quality of Foobar2000 2.X is lower than version 1.X.

Right now I'm comparing versions 1.6.16 and 2.1.4, but in the past I downloaded one of the early versions of Foobar2000 2.X for evaluation and the noticed the same problem.
I've checked both 32 and 64 bit versions of f2k 2.X. Both play worse than v1.6.

Problem is easily hearable while using the ASIO drivers (and plugin), for "standard" drivers v1.6 probably still keeps an edge, but I'm not  really sure about it, since general sound quality with non-ASIO drivers is lower, what makes comparison more difficult, anyway I'd rather blame the f2k 2.X core than the asio plugin.

All tests were done using Windows 10, 64 bit. I used 2 DACs with their proprietary ASIO drivers, The results were consistent.
The most noticeable difference is the soundstage degradation, so jitter would be my primary suspect.

I'd be grateful for a fix, since only v2.X is available in 64 bits, what is required for PGGB-RT plugin, and PGGB-RT upsampling is really good.