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Re: Dynamic Range plugin

Reply #100
We now have DR built into Foobar natively, with this component (and the True Peak Scanner), so can use what we need. It's brilliant for mastering as I can get an instant readout of many different variables, track to track.

Since you’re a mastering engineer, I have to remind you that foobar’s “DR” plug–in is an approximation.

Yeah, it's not a problem for me as I've never taken much notice of DR. I mostly use LUFS-I and peak LUFS-S to give me a quick idea of how loud a track is likely to be before listening. As I said above, those figures have documentation and standardisation, and are widely used in the audio industry, unlike DR which I've rarely heard an engineer refer to.

Re: Dynamic Range plugin

Reply #101
@Case

Hi
first i want to thank you for the plugin
do you think could be possibile to add in the Dr Meter context menu ->save results logs to  ?
or maybe in the Dr Meter Results -> save results logs to ?
would so useful and easy .., than change the option in the advanced options
again thanks for the plugin
cheers


Re: Dynamic Range plugin

Reply #103
@Case

Question. The dialog shows RMS and Peak values as dBFS, but the log file shows them as dB.
If you ever get in a position to update this component for whatever reason, would it be too much to ask to also show those values as dBFS in the log file?

Now that I am aware of the difference it's not that big of an issue, but it looked confusing at first as these differ from the dBTP values.

crash with mixed file types

Reply #104
Hello,

Thank you very much for making a 64-bit version of this.  Installed and used it extensively this past weekend, and it performed extremely well with one exception:  if a folder contained files of mixed type (FLAC + MP3, for example), it crashed foobar2000.  Though probably not very common with single albums, I have multiple folders of mixed files downloaded from various online sellers that would love it if this could be corrected.  Appreciate the consideration.

Thanks,

Steve

 

Re: Dynamic Range plugin

Reply #105
The dialog shows RMS and Peak values as dBFS, but the log file shows them as dB.
If you ever get in a position to update this component for whatever reason, would it be too much to ask to also show those values as dBFS in the log file?
I tried to keep the log as close to old component's format as possible, that's why I used the same wrong units. Units corrected in version 0.5 of the component.

if a folder contained files of mixed type (FLAC + MP3, for example), it crashed foobar2000.
That should not be a problem, I was fully prepared for such scenario and log will even report different codecs in use. I found single crash entry from crash logger from this component, it was related to scanning highly corrupted tracks and some tracks looked like they couldn't get decoded at all. The log writer had too light error checking for scan results and it tried to access per-channel data that it never managed to scan.
Should be fixed in the just released version 0.5. I'd appreciate it if you could test with the same files that failed earlier.