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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -
Quote from: 145dBSPL on
This is an interesting insight. Thank you for your research. To visualize this, I created and encoded a pink noise file.
Settings used are -V110 -HF[1|2]. For both encoded files, an mp3 analysis shows 18.0 % Simple stereo frame
and 82.0 % Mid-side stereo frames.

Sorry for the late reaction, but thanks for illustrating this. Mind if I steal your images for the Wiki documentation?
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Kraeved -


@Klymins You came to the audiophile forum for advice on how to solve the problem of audio compression. This means that you do not have enough personal knowledge to solve it. People who know how to solve such problems spent a lot of time and came to the conclusion that there were very few solutions, then they offered the optimal one.

This command creates an audio file that meets the specifications, users can listen to it even in the browser and it can be used with Flash. Instead of being satisfied with it, you continue to bend your will and demand attention to increasingly bizarre requirements, trying to achieve what is impossible with MP3.

After all, if you're looking for a way to be smarter than established audio encoders and reshape their audio output to your whims, you need a hacker forum. And here your persistence has already grown into annoying stubbornness.

Finally, it makes sense to try the latest version of LAME (today it is 3.101 beta 3) and compare the sound.
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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by Klymins -
@Kraeved I can't say this is VBR or ABR because frame bitrates are selected automatically, not via an algorithm that looks at the contents of this file. I think more than a variable bit rate is required to say it is VBR or ABR. As i said already: Let 8kbps frames be letter A and 16kbps ones B. ABR does something like "ABABBAABBABAABABBA" but i want "BABABABABABABABA". And, my 12kbps files must be marked as CBR even if they are VBR actually. Addition: I also want the additional 4kbps in 16kbps frames to go to the 8kbps frames in a normal sequence via bit reservoir, so it can be really 12kbps.

Addition: I was already sure there is some interesting stuff as foobar2000 says it's 24kbps and it's shorter than actually it is, and i was thinked it is 24kbps at first, but these are still not a reason for me to say it's VBR or ABR per above.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -
Quote from: Kraeved on
Dear @maikmerten, is it possible to compile Helix binaries automatically for x86 and x64 (two separate archives) on Github when the version is bumped, or could you update the front page by adding links to RareWares (downloads) and HA Wiki (documentation)?

Yeah, I probably should link to the Wiki documentation and then point to a proper download location for Windows builds. I'd of course like RandomWares to be the official download location, if john agrees.

As to building the Windows binaries, I think perhaps we should find out which builds work best and how they are generated. I'm a Linux guy and am hesitant to weigh in too much on Windows things, but am hopeful that it may become apparent what works best on Windows.
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General - (fb2k) / error reading (CUI?) configuration file
Last post by Phillight -
Hi, I've had to forcibly re-setup windows. i.e. my system crashed, Windows was unbootable. I still have the drive with all the files on it, which means I have located my installation of foobar200. I hadn't updated it in a long time, so I was sitting on Version 1.6.7



I found a folder in ProgramFiles and one in AppData\Roaming.

I copied both of them over and tried to launch it, receiving this error message:
Error reading configuration file (Corrupted configuration file). If you choose to ignore, configuration data may be irreversibly lost.

So. I've been trying ever since to isolate the issue and have found that it must be the foo_ui_columns.dll.cfg . If I don't copy that one, the program launches.

So the question is how can I still use it? I would like to not do all that work again to set up columns UI

does anyone have any idea as to what I could do?
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by KevinB52379 -
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.