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Audio Hardware / Re: Possible to Connect Cassette Player's Headphone Jack to USB Port?
Last post by cwb -
To bring my original post in this thread to a conclusion:

I ultimately decided on getting the Behringer UCA222 (as recommended in an above post) and this cable, and with those two items the digitization of the cassette went smoothly.

I went with the Behringer because I didn't want any weak links between the cassette player and the USB port. And even though I do not anticipate digitizing any more cassettes; if I ever do, I know I have some quality connectors on hand to use.

Thank you all for the suggestions. I was definitely at a loss on locating what was needed.

** Not that it matters to anyone else but me; I attached a sample from the digitized (and cleaned up) cassette.

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General Audio / Re: Question about MP3 decoding
Last post by Klymins -
For bit depth, the decoder has to do with this. Theoretically there is no limit. I'd assume that most decode to 16 bits per sample.

For sample rate, the streams themselves have the sample rate data.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by Defender -
Quote from: Case on
Take a closer look at your grouping pattern. It only uses a group for "file://" paths. Everything else has blank group, which means everything is considered to belong to the same group. The example pattern I gave you is the opposite, it only uses sane groups for files and creates a new group for everything else.
Sorry for being stupid. I don't have a clue what you consider to be groups/albums internally in TPS. Kind of strange that streams can be grouped together anyway. I really don't want to have more entries appearing in the context menu with long texts which will require reading before clicking.

I changed the grouping pattern to:
$if($strcmp($cut(%_path_raw%,7),'file://'),%album artist% | %date% | %album% | %XXXdiscnumber%,%path%)

This seems to work. Rescanned all streams. No new surprises after the last preview for TPS and last hotfix for external tags.

Changes all my code to fully benefit from the (manually) added %station%. And changed all relevant code to prioritize embedded Front as Station Images.
Only thing to be fixed is adding Icon to external tags, but I guess that is for Peter. Same for making a global tag available always with station name when streaming,

Thx.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Problems with component FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper (foo_input_ffmpeg)
Last post by gorman -
Quote from: dts350z on
I have questions. Is there a log file or other way to see what's working/not working?

I want to use ffmpeg to decode 12 channel (7.1.4) IAMF/Eclipsa audio, like this:
ffmpeg.exe -hide_banner -y -i input.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:a:0][0:a:1][0:a:2][0:a:3][0:a:4][0:a:5][0:a:6]amerge=inputs=7[tmp];[tmp]pan=12c|c0=c0|c1=c1|c2=c10|c3=c11|c4=c2|c5=c3|c6=c4|c7=c5|c8=c6|c9=c7|c10=c8|c11=c9[out]" -map "[out]" -c:a pcm_s24le output.wav

So I have ffmpeg pointed to and found (it is a shared .dll version, if that makes a difference) and I have *.MP4 as format name IAMF

I have: -i %s -filter_complex "[0:a:0][0:a:1][0:a:2][0:a:3][0:a:4][0:a:5][0:a:6]amerge=inputs=7[tmp];[tmp]pan=12c|c0=c0|c1=c1|c2=c10|c3=c11|c4=c2|c5=c3|c6=c4|c7=c5|c8=c6|c9=c7|c10=c8|c11=c9[out]" -map "[out]" -c:a pcm_s24le

as the additional arguments.

I don't see any effect or change in behavior when I try to play .mp4 iamf files. I just get: Unable to open item for playback (Unsupported format or corrupted file):
"E:\Google Drive\Imerssive up-remix ecosystem\Test Files\7.1.4\ChannelIDs714_no_map_paired_streams.mp4"
I think your problem could be similar to mine, described here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123910.0.html

The problem I found is that the component assumes a certain default and there's no way of overriding. While I understand, completely, the desire to have a somewhat "out of the box" behavior, this robs ffmpeg of much of its flexibility, consequently doing the same to the plugin.

Hopefully @Peter could chime in on this.
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foobar2000 mobile / AUv3 plugin support for iOS
Last post by sympathyisaknife -
Hi!
I recently found out that foobar for MacOS supports AudioUnit plugins, which is super convenient. (The only other player I know that also does is Fidelia.) I mostly use ToneBoosters' EQ and Morphit which are really good PEQ implementations, and also have iPad/iPhone versions.
Having this functionality on iOS would be really cool, would you think about it?
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General Audio / Question about MP3 decoding
Last post by andr0id -
I don't use MP3 much, but I was wondering about the output stream.
Does it in fact decode to 16/44 PCM as input to the DAC regardless of whether it is VBR, 320, 128 or whatever?

Since DACs take a PCM bitstream (or in some cases DSD), I would assume that must be the case, right?


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AAC - General / Re: QAAC: discussion, questions, feature requests, etc.
Last post by rusty82 -
Quote from: Squeller on
I.e. you can create m4a files? Then that's fine.
Yeah, both from fb2k and directly through commandline. Super happy that with libFLAC it can take in flac files and even keep tags/cover.
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The Tools field in fb2k metadata will reveal the CoreAudio which has been used (eg "qaac 2.83, CoreAudioToolbox 7.10.9.0, AAC-LC Encoder, TVBR q91, Quality 96")
Oh yes, thanks. It's all the same except qaac 2.84. I suppose since CoreAudio hasn't changed sirca 2017 it's all the same.
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AAC - General / Re: QAAC: discussion, questions, feature requests, etc.
Last post by Squeller -
Quote from: rusty82 on
May I ask, what about Apple Music? I've installed Store version of apple music on win11, navigated to its folder via task manager ("open [exe] file location"), and copied the required dll's from there, and they seem to work the same as those QTfiles from github link.
I.e. you can create m4a files? Then that's fine. The Tools field in fb2k metadata will reveal the CoreAudio which has been used (eg "qaac 2.83, CoreAudioToolbox 7.10.9.0, AAC-LC Encoder, TVBR q91, Quality 96")
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by Case -
Take a closer look at your grouping pattern. It only uses a group for "file://" paths. Everything else has blank group, which means everything is considered to belong to the same group. The example pattern I gave you is the opposite, it only uses sane groups for files and creates a new group for everything else.