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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
According to the compression results of me with the music in me, the situation is similar to the majority of the tests I have performed. Of course this is the first trial. Better can be done. Lossywav is activated as a special mode for now.
They also perform low performance as I don't understand the reason for Alac, Optimfrog and Ape.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: lossyWAV 1.4.2 Development (was 1.5.0)
Last post by Porcus -
Some bitrates. Here I took the LossyWAV settings in Nick.C's signature. Lossy part only.
For those with a "+", then the first number is with block size set to 512, and the "+25" etc is the extra when using 2048 like HALAC does.
275   ...   ALS, smallest
287   +25   ALS -l
292    +9   TAK -p4m
318   +11   FLAC -5
327   +13   WavPack -hhx4
353   +27   FLAC -0r0
387     -   HALAC (2048 blocksize)
725         HALAC but without the identifying FACT chunk
1411        wav


Speeds then?

Comparing to FLAC encoded with -0r0 --no-md5sum --keep-foreign-metadata and block size set:
6.6 resp 7.9   FLAC encode to 2048 resp 512
9.0 HALAC encode

But HALAC decodes faster:
7.3 HALAC decode
11 FLAC decode these MD5-less files with --keep-foreign-metadata, maybe differing some tenths over block size used.
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foobar2000 mobile / Re: Stop playback after each track in Foobar2000 mobile
Last post by pcetp -
I think the 'One track' function is designed to play the same track again and not to move through a playlist.

I opened a playlist with 4 tracks: track1.mp3, track2.mp3, track3.mp3, track4.mp3
After playback of track 1 a black and white screen with playback controls is displayed (the cover picture for the mp3 track is not visible in this screen).
The controls shown are like:  <<   >   >>

After playback foobar2000 mobile always wants to go back to the beginning of track 1.
So after track 1 you have to click on the right button 2 times to get to track 2.
After track 2 you have to click on the right button 3 times to get to track 3.
And after track 3 you have to click on the right button 4 times to get to track 4.

I work with playlists a lot so this is not very user friendly.

I think the solution I mentioned in my first post with "Stop playback after current track" and the option "Reset the above when stopping." would be much more user friendly.




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General - (fb2k) / Any way to query foobar2000 via CLI and get structured data?
Last post by Coreda -
Not sure if a component exists that handles such a thing that I've just overlooked but was looking for a way to use foobar2000's query syntax to filter a library to certain items then get structured data about it (ideally JSON) in return.

Use case would be for being able to display an external-to-fb2k display of artists/songs/recently played.

Would be similarly useful if there were a way to also trigger playback based on a query via CLI, though looking at the CLI reference on the wiki I'm uncertain if this would be achievable via run cmd or such since afaict it only allows for menu-based commands.

Thought I'd ask to see what might be feasible.