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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Peakmeter Spectrum component
Last post by pqyt -
pqyt has attempted an x64 re-write but has put it on the back burner for now: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123394.msg1019902.html#msg1019902
It's part of 0.7.5.0-beta2.

Hmmm, very interesting. I'm using 18 of those in my skin.

Would it be possible to configure this component to mimic the attached screenshots?

Left side is an instance with number of channels vertical bars and right side is a peakmeter with number of channels horizontal bars.

EDIT: I have flavors for up to 2ch, up to 6ch, and 7+ch that use the 8ch display.
I'm still playing with the styling options. Beta 3 will have LED mode with a configurable LED size and LED gap. All the existing styling options can be applied.

Not sure what else I can do with the separate peak and RMS bars.

(Don't pay attention to the colors. I have zero artistic skills)
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Peakmeter Spectrum component
Last post by Defender -
pqyt has attempted an x64 re-write but has put it on the back burner for now: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123394.msg1019902.html#msg1019902
It's part of 0.7.5.0-beta2.

Hmmm, very interesting. I'm using 18 of those in my skin.

Would it be possible to configure this component to mimic the attached screenshots?

Left side is an instance with number of channels vertical bars and right side is a peakmeter with number of channels horizontal bars.

EDIT: I have flavors for up to 2ch, up to 6ch, and 7+ch that use the 8ch display.
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General Audio / Re: Can lossy high resolution outperform lossless at standard resolution?
Last post by bryant -
Neither of these philosophical camps have ever left any space for something like lossy WavPack.

I had. But then I found a few cases when WavPack hybrid failed. You called those cases anomalies. But in the course of your explanation, you outlined ways how this encoding mode can be improved, which is what I now pray for, even in my own signature. Until then, WavPack lossless only, which looks advantageous against FLAC, which has difficulties with the preservation of non-audio data. Peace of mind, you know.
Yes, I believe that those samples are pathological anomalies. I am curious about them, and have always been interested in different noise-shaping techniques, but I am not working on that and have no immediate plans to. WavPack lossy is not intended to be transparent at any particular bitrate nor is it intended to be competitive with standard codecs at conventional sampling rates. The fact that a couple samples require a higher bitrate should not come as a huge surprise, especially considering WavPack’s relative simplicity. Also consider that neither sample came from CDs or even legitimate music downloads and that they also break many conventional codecs (which is in fact how the first was supposedly discovered). So to call these “failures” and disqualify the mode from contention seems a little odd to me, especially when you refuse to entertain the -h and higher -x modes. But of course this is your call to make.

The application being discussed in this thread is something that conventional lossy audio codecs do not pretend to handle and their authors might even consider pointless (i.e., human hearing extends to 20 kHz, so the first thing they do is remove everything above that). That said, a pathological sample could easily be produced here that also triggers the same “failures”, and I would produce such a sample myself except that in the wild it would pose a real danger to fragile audio systems (tweeters and amplifiers specifically) if played loudly enough. That’s not the point however, and I believe this could be extraordinarily reliable given the usual sources of high-resolution music, which tend to be primarily acoustic and carefully recorded.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: MusicBrainz64
Last post by KthugS -
It's interesting. Since the first time I ripped a music CD a long time ago, the album artist tag field has always been filled in, so I thought it was natural.
Really interesting, I was missing something very basic  :))
I will update to 2.4
Thank you very much