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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by l4cache -
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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 %.
There're some difference between dirrerent CPU microarchitectures I think.
If my result is anything to belive, even avx-512 can bring some improvements.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_dsp_effect
Last post by mudlord -
Thats a side effect of the algorithm. Not much can be done at all.

Rubberband iirc was a phase vocoder/FFT based tempo stretcher. There is others around that could be investigated, iirc paulstretch is a more extreme version of the methods in rubberband.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_dsp_effect
Last post by cwb -
As a test I installed the old SoundTouch component and an old DSP Effect 0.43 in a Portable foobar2000 ver. 1.4.8. I had neglected to remember that the old SoundTouch component only allows going to -50.00 %. Whereas with DSP Effect today, my typical use has often been in the -55.00 to -70.00 % range.

Using -50.00 % as the lowest setting, I thought both the old component and DSP Effect 0.43, utilizing SoundTouch, did an adequate enough job in lowering the playback speed without changing the quality of the audio much (according to my hearing).

Applying the same -50.00 % setting to DSP Effect 0.47 (Since that is what I currently have installed in the fb2k system installed version). I thought it did an adequate enough job too.

So @fooball  was on the right track about the more negative the number, the more likely anomalies (My word) are to "become increasingly audible".
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General - (fb2k) / Reading password-protected archives
Last post by JaapV -
Hello everyone,

recently, I discoverd fb2k's archive-reading capability. Wonderful! However, I cannot get it to read password-protected archives. I know the password, but fb2k doen't give me the opportunity to type it in. Am I missing something?

Regards, Jaap.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Device-Priority-SMP
Last post by regor -
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This one adds a setting to tweak the workaround timing (which is now disabled by default). [...]
Well, if I say I added a new setting, obviously it was not there before xd Let me know if that option in aggressive or 10 ms helps somehow.