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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by sveakul -
Quote from: pqyt on
Quote from: Fabcore on
Hi, I got a crash while adjusting this parameter to the extreme high
@Fabcore , that's not extreme high. Can you attach a preset that causes a crash? Also, which version of the component are you using?
I realize that the value he had in the screenshot is not "extreme"--heck mine is higher--but he referred to the "parameter" itself so I don't know what he had been inserting there that provoked the post.

Case, point taken, and Fabcore, no accusation intended, but I just get peeved when I get the impression that a brilliantly performing app is just getting poked to death by attempts to "let's see what way-off entry can make it misbehave."
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_chacon
Last post by Case -
Yirkha is unfortunately gone and there are no foo_chacon sources. Someone would have to recreate it from scratch.
I can't speak for others but I fail to see the point of such a component, I have no idea where it would be needed when everything has been unicode for decades.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Playlists Get Zero'd Out After a Library Search
Last post by Case -
Are you claiming just using search overwrites playlists? Are you certain you don't hit enter after typing, that would send the results to selected playlist.
Note that if you overwrite a playlist by accident, you can hit Ctrl+Z to undo the damage. One doesn't need to manually save FPL files because of fear of misclicks.
The ellipsis (...) button at the end of input field allows you to send the files to a new playlist or to a new autoplaylist. If you have a habit of hitting enter accidentally, you can try if enabling 'Library viewer selection' playlist at Preferences -> Media Library makes the search work in a way you like.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar 2.1.4 Crash
Last post by Case -
@Musique-Rabbit, have you perhaps extracted the player files from the installer manually?
Unless you modify Windows settings, files downloaded from the internet are marked with a hidden alternative stream file marking them as potentially dangerous. The installer removes this marking from the installed files, but if you bypass the installer the marking can stay with the files. Which would cause the OS to keep treating the files as dangerous internet sourced files.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by Case -
Quote from: sveakul on
Not trying to be "smart" but if you play with putting wild settings in the parameters you can crash almost anything.
I'd say valid reason to crash because of "wild" settings is very rare. Running out of memory can potentially be an ok reason to crash, but for a normal PC that would usually require allowing the user to do something totally insane. For example if the component allowed user to scale the background image to something requiring gigabytes of memory to store, allocating the memory for that would most likely fail. If such allocation fails the component could quietly disable the album art, show an error, or crash. It all depends on how or if the programmer decides to handle errors.
I'd also call it a bug if a component allows selecting settings it can't handle.

I'm not claiming foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer does anything wrong, just commenting generally about your statement.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: error reading (CUI?) configuration file
Last post by Phillight -
I do have the file, as stated. And it is not damaged. I opened it in a HEX editor and it does show some odd symbols but it also shows some of the functions and text I typed in myself. Like my progress bar or my Heart-Rating System.

the "original, vanilla" cfg file does look the same. I attached it here, I don't think - hope at any rate - that there's no personal information in it...

So, I'm a little closer now. I downloaded foobar2000-v2 and DELETED the AppData - Folder. It asked me to import my old config, I clicked yes and navigated to the BACKUP of my old foobar2000-1.6.7 version. The layout is wrong though and all the colors are not right, but at least a couple of things are back...
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by JoshuaChang -
Quote from: KevinB52379 on
EDIT:  OK I found a compile of Helix MP3 encoder on my external hard drive , the zip file is called helix_mp3enc_r11_x64.zip and the exe is called hmp3enc.exe.
I tried this version (I know it's one of the original Helix versions) but I was curious to see hwo this 64 bit version worked.

I did the test from my SSD and got 1300x to 1800x.

So what is different between Case's build, this old version and all newer compiles?

I believe I got that version of Helix from Rarewares or ReallyRareWares.

OK I tried copying my FLACS to the internal SSD and tried converting with foobar2000 from there.

I still average about 220x to 300x using your slow compile 64 bit version of Helix. 

Same speeds I got when converting from external hard drive...so I don't think USB is the issue.

I think i have the same problem, my cpu is zen2 4650g(6c12t), i got around 280~300x under command line @ single thread with autodidact's clang build or rarewares' gcc build, I also compiled helix myself with clang plus linktime optimization, my version got around 480x. maybe that's the key.
here's the binary, you can try it.