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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Georgia-ReBORN - A Clean foobar2000 Theme

Last post by regor - Today at 10:54

Quote from: TT on 2024-04-28 15:39:13
Quote from: Majestyk on 2024-04-28 09:54:23
TT, I notice you're using Biography 1.4.2, which has the fixed AllMusic. But as noted in the Biography thread, 1.4.2 can sometimes crash fb2k on exit. Was there ever a fix for this?

I think you are talking about regor's fix here: https://github.com/Wil-B/Biography/pull/7/files
The fix is already included in Georgia-ReBORN when I updated the Biography scripts to v1.4.2.

Other foobar users who are using the original Biography v1.4.2 and not Georgia-ReBORN should also clear the interval
in their scripts/allmusic.js -> send function.

-TT

Just an FYI... Biography's Allmusic is still crashing fb2k on exit. If you click on an artist that you've never loaded before, and exit while it's loading, it can crash. I'd say it does this 20 to 30% of the time.

It's doing it with your theme and my Darkone tweak theme. I even used your allmusic file on my Darkone tweak theme (yes, I removed all the modded 'bio' references) and it does the same thing.

The crash on exit goes away when Allmusic is disabled.

Supposing it's related to the fetch function and a crash due to wrong activex handling, adding a signal at the on_unload callback to stop fetching could solve the issue.

https://github.com/Wil-B/Biography/blob/cc04f8eb93741280eecccadcd6043837e0d8eef3/scripts/allmusic.js

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		const checkResponse = setInterval(() => {
			if (window.IsUnload) {
				clearTimeout(timer);
				clearInterval(checkResponse);
				onStateChange.call(null, resolve, reject, () => void(0));
			}
			try {xmlhttp.Status && xmlhttp.ResponseText} catch(e) {return;}
			clearTimeout(timer);
			clearInterval(checkResponse);
			onStateChange.call(xmlhttp, resolve, reject, func);
		}, 30);

On callbacks file

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function on_script_unload() {
	window.IsUnload = true;
}

Anyway, if you have a crash, share the report.

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Georgia-ReBORN - A Clean foobar2000 Theme

Last post by Majestyk - Today at 10:42

Quote from: TT on 2024-04-28 15:39:13

Quote from: Majestyk on 2024-04-28 09:54:23
TT, I notice you're using Biography 1.4.2, which has the fixed AllMusic. But as noted in the Biography thread, 1.4.2 can sometimes crash fb2k on exit. Was there ever a fix for this?

I think you are talking about regor's fix here: https://github.com/Wil-B/Biography/pull/7/files
The fix is already included in Georgia-ReBORN when I updated the Biography scripts to v1.4.2.

Other foobar users who are using the original Biography v1.4.2 and not Georgia-ReBORN should also clear the interval
in their scripts/allmusic.js -> send function.

-TT

Just an FYI... Biography's Allmusic is still crashing fb2k on exit. If you click on an artist and exit while it's loading (1 to 2 seconds after loading is best), it can crash. I'd say it does this 20 to 30% of the time. Of course, be sure you don't have the artist/album files already downloaded.

It's doing it with your theme and my Darkone tweak theme. I even used your allmusic file on my Darkone tweak theme (yes, I removed all the modded 'bio' references) and it does the same thing.

The crash on exit goes away when Allmusic is disabled.

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: 64-bit recompiles

Last post by Squeller - Today at 08:58

Really great initiative of you. Still happy.
CASE, on top of your web page, can you also link Peters official component page? I felt the itch, others may feel the same, to look and compare, thx.

Other Lossy Codecs / Re: LossyFlac vs Opus 256

Last post by Squeller - Today at 08:37

I'd recommend you to find Gurus listening tests and go for a robust, very compatible (maybe you want to use your converted files elsewhere) and space saving format: Apple LC AAC. Become more opportunistic and don't waste too much energy into theoretical problems. Example: In one car, I can only use 16 GB sticks, so I encode to Q64 or Q73 (say, q64, depending on the audio, ranges from ~130 down to 80 kbps, pads, lowpassed, piano music, in general few transients seem to qualify for low bitrates). Totally perfect. In another car, I use LAME mp3 @V2 - just because that one does not display embedded album art from the AAC files.
Good headphone, I personally would probably go for Apple AAC @ q82 or q91
And don't hunt for problems, it's the beginning of the end. It distracts. Enjoy the music. Don't forget, your cat walking by has a bigger impact on your audible experience than the almost academic problems we tend to find.

I'm saying that, because in the past I perfectly heard if magnetic tape heads were not correctly adjusted. Hence I couldn't 100% enjoy the music, everyone else could.

Learn to make things right but then free yourself from over-critical listening ("i feel like i'm able to hear small differences in background drums"). It makes few sense. In a concert, there is huge differences at every moment because of the audience.

FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests

Last post by ktf - Today at 07:32

Thanks. It turns out that some changes I made when working out the 32-bit encoder/decoder did affect the 24-bit part more than I thought. I was under the impression the code paths meant for 32-bit audio were only seldomly used for 24-bit audio, but it turns out certain kinds of 24-bit audio (especially those with a completely empty upper half of the spectrum) do use these code paths a lot, and they are much slower.

So, these changes make the choice between these code paths more strict: that choice was rather made rather roughly (on the safe side of course), but now the encoder goes through a little bit more math to only choose the slow code path when absolutely necessary.

The speed-up is highly dependent on source material. Audio with a high samplerate in which the upper frequencies are fully 'utilised' do not see any change at all, most audio I've tested sees quite some improvement at preset 8, and those where really no audio exists above 20kHz see most improvement at preset 5, but are still slow at preset 8.

Other Lossy Codecs / Re: LossyFlac vs Opus 256

Last post by Nick.C - Today at 07:11

Quote from: guruboolez on 2024-05-16 21:05:28

-extraportable is the lowest LossyFLAC preset. Quality seems really high but I don't think it's supposed to be fully transparent.

lossyWAV Beta 1.4.3c includes, for testing at this time, four more quality options below extraportable (-q -5): "unadvised" (-q -10), "dubious" (-q -8.75), "questionable" (-q -7.5) and "aggressive" (-q -6.25). These will yield lower resultant lossyFLAC bitrates, with the consequent increased risk of noticeable added noise as the quality numeral reduces.

General Audio / Re: Replay gain not working properly, audio levels are not norlamized

Last post by rzsolti - Today at 06:45

The albums I have included here are: Taylor Swift: the tortured poet department and Emmanuel Pahud, Éric le Sage: Mozart stories

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_truepeak True Peak Scanner

Last post by Case - Today at 06:43

Quote from: Defender on 2024-05-16 20:50:16

Quote from: Case on 2024-05-16 07:37:25
If you are scanning just one track the scanning speed will be limited by the source file decoder. Scanning is multithreaded but threads are used only for handling multiple tracks at once.
Not sure what you mean. Can truepeakscanner (and/or foobar RG scanner) use multithreaded scanning on multiple tracks/subsongs within a single container (iso/mkv)?

Absolutely. As long as there are separate tracks the work can be spread across multiple threads. You can look at task manager and you should see possibly even 100% CPU usage for foobar2000, as long as you aren't bottlenecked by storage.

Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs

Last post by sld - Today at 05:04

I just prefer that the codecs and bitrates I use don't mess with the original input file according to my ears.
My ears are pretty ok, but I guess the important part here is "don't mess". The only time things get messed with are:
1) Out of my control - the budget hardware I have
2) Within my control - EQing

3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer

Last post by TF3RDL - Today at 04:10

Quote from: TF3RDL on 2024-03-04 00:14:16

Finally, we got the IIR filter bank spectrum analyzer for foobar2000, so if I see this actually working, I don't need Voxengo AnSpec or foo_dsp_vst3 anymore just for visualization

I've tested both of them but SWIFT and analog-style analyzer mode as in my own CodePen project aren't implemented properly, it currently look like this (music):

and this (sine wave sweep):

for both cases for screenshots of analog-style (IIR filter bank) mode

Also, both SWIFT and analog-style analyzer's output doesn't get reset upon seek (also applies to peak decay and time smoothing) unlike foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer

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