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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer 2.x.x.x feature requests
Last post by TF3RDL -
Quote from: mycroft on
Or use actual real software and not red-herring.
I already have been using other spectrum analyzers like my own browser-based ones (FFT-based, frequency bands-based, and/or filter bank-based ones though outside foobar2000), VST plugins like Voxengo SPAN and AnSpec (inside foobar2000 through foo_dsp_vst3) that have features foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer currently lacks, alongside playing AudioSurf (to upload videos for songs to try in AudioSurf where there someone haven't uploaded videos of AudioSurf gameplay with these songs) and writing Fanon Wiki pages like this one O:)

BTW, happy April Fools! :D
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General - (fb2k) / Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates
Last post by marc2k3 -
JXL is already supported since fb2k 2.0 but there were bugs in the 2.1.x series that prevented external images from working properly (embedded was unaffected). That has now been fixed and should be fine in the latest 2.24.3 release.

edit: for external images to work, I think you need to specify .jxl in the album art preferences. Using wildcards won't work.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates
Last post by nbel.89 -
Support for JPEG XL (.jxl) album art

My hope is for foobar2000 to offer support for the JPEG XL (.jxl) format. It's easily the best quality and most efficient lossless image format we have right now. It's also gaining widespread system support: Apple since macOS 14, iPadOS 17 and iOS 17, and even using it as a container for their ProRAW format; Microsoft since Windows 11 24H2 (with the free JPEG XL Image Extension installed from the Microsoft Store); and even Linux (starting with Ubuntu 18.04).

To demonstrate, I uploaded a 3000x3000 album art of Beyoncé's Renaissance. Here's the size comparison between formats in maximum settings:

PNG (original file): 8.61 MB
AVIF (Lossless, 4:4:4 subsampling, Speed: 5): 8.37 MB
WebP (Lossless, Compression: 0, Filter: 0, Filter Sharpness: 0, Slow RGB-YUV): 6.65 MB
JXL (Lossless, Compression: 0): 5.21 MB

Now, let's get them to a more reasonable 1080x1080 size. I'm still going to use max settings for this comparison's sake but know that most content providers and most users will likely use less extensive/more compressed settings, so file sizes are going to be even smaller.

PNG (compression level: 6, Lanczos resample): 1.48 MB
AVIF (Lanczos resample): 1.22 MB
WebP (Lanczos resample): 1.21 MB
JXL (Lanczos resample): 1.01 MB

You can find image comparisons here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zDpbAui0MyPBaeNrIB03mlVZiHLuYvDb

When you have to embed them to a file and said file has to be decoded in real-time, it makes a lot of difference, i.e. no lags. I think JPEG XL is the future. It just needs support. And it's happening now. I'm hoping foobar2000 would offer support too. It's a royalty-free, open standard too!

https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
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Development - (fb2k) / Re: Dolby Atmos Playback
Last post by mycroft -
Because Dolby Atmos is patented. And needs approval from Dolby for legal support in 3rd party apps. And then you need someone to do actual coding work to code support for it in fb2k too.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Cannot see Cambridge Audio Media Library from windows Laptop - works on Iphone
Last post by SimBun -
Quote from: midodds on
Laptop version doesn't  :D ..I am trying to add  the Cambridge Audio media library  by adding as a music folder via :-
Desktop foobar isn't a UPnP control point nor can it use a media server as the source for its library.

There is a legacy plugin called foo_upnp that works with the 32bit version of foobar which offers control point functionality, if that's what you're after.