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foobar2000 mobile / Re: Cannot advance tracks when connecting via UPnP over internet
Last post by setzer52 -
I have checked in Tools > Playback Order for these settings, and it is currently set to "Default" and not "One Track." Changing from one to the other has no effect on behavior, it still plays the current track repeatedly even when set to Default. Additionally, this setting is properly obeyed when playing music from any other source, including files local to the device, and even when playing music from the exact same UPnP library so long as it is played from within the LAN. It is only when the music is played via UPnP over the internet from outside the LAN that this setting seems to be ignored and the track is endlessly repeated.

I have tested this issue with previous versions of foobar2000 mobile, and this issue does not exist for these old versions. I am playing from the same UPnP library in the same circumstances, and previous versions are able to play a playlist properly without repeating one track, so that would seem to isolate the issue to v1.6.2 build #934.

Please let me know if I'm overlooking anything or if I can explain further.
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AAC - Tech / Re: AAC frame lengths
Last post by saratoga -
The shorter length is used to handle transients while the longer length is used to improve resolution on non-transient blocks.  WMA added various lengths, probably to try and optimize that trade off, but it didn't use the additional sizes that much and newer codecs haven't adopted that approach so presumably it isn't that effective.
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Validated News / Re: Exact Audio Copy v1.7 [now v1.8]
Last post by moonlightfocus -
total bummer that they removed the freedb/gnudb search and submit feature

enjoyed, for many years, submitting old and new CD's to the freedb/gnudb

and v1.8 still has the submit button but it is greyed out and just stares at you

bring it back

also, today i inserted some cd from 1989 into EAC and chose accurate meta as the meta lookup and it didn't have the album listed

i guess it's time to submit it, but you can't? total bummer

it shows up from the musicbrainz search tho

not sure why freedb/gnudb was removed, all anyone needed to do was enter in a fake email and it would work...
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: strange, recurring crash (since about a month back)
Last post by razielanarki -
happy to report that, since the last win11 canary update a few days back, the heap fragmentation bug seems to be fixed, ans most likely was caused by the windows canary build itself. 

build 27718.rs_prelease.240927-1358  runs foobar2000 32bit as smoothly as before.

thanks everyone for the efforts!, heck even i learned a bit about hardcore debugging :)

this report can be considered closed.

(it was a long wait, usually the builds come once a week - now 6 (or was it 8?) weeks later a new build installed - i guess ms engineers need some time off too..)
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Playlist-Tools-SMP
Last post by Defender -
Quote from: regor on
Known problem. You have to download the files again (from repository, latest commit, not the release), as I noted on multiple threads, previous scripts are not compatible with jsplitter. So I had to add a fix for that (but I have not created a release yet).
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,116669.msg1051811.html#msg1051811

Or just wait until I create a new release
Found it & works. No more SMP in the skin. Thx!
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -
HALAC version 0.3.6 is both faster and has a better compression ratio. And the ‘lossyWAV’ results are also now more impressive.
https://github.com/Hakan-Abbas/HALAC-High-Availability-Lossless-Audio-Compression/releases/tag/0.3.6

Basically the entropy encoder stage has completely changed. This version uses Rice coding. It was a bit of a pain, but I finally finished my new Rice Coder. Of course, the results can be further improved both in terms of speed and compression ratio (we can see a similar effect for HALIC). That's why I'm delaying the 24/32 bit generalisation. No manual SIMD, GPU or ASM was used. Compiled as Encoder AVX, Decoder SSE2.
The results below show the single core performance of version 0.2.9 with version 0.3.6. I'll leave the API and Player update for later, I'm a bit tired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxq-WXja78Y
Code: [Select]
AMD RYZEN 3700X, 16 gb RAM, 512 gb fast SSD

WAV RESULTS (Encode Time, Decode Time, Compressed Size)
Busta Rhymes - 829.962.880 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 2.985  4.563  574,192,159
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 2.578  4.547  562,057,837
HALAC 0.2.9 Fast   2.010  4.375  594,237,502
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.922  3.766  582,314,407

Sean Paul - 525.065.800 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 1.875  2.938  382,270,791
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 1.657  2.969  376,787,400
HALAC 0.2.9 Fast   1.266  2.813  393,541,675
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.234  2.438  390,994,355

Sibel Can - 504.822.048 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 1.735  2.766  363,330,525  
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 1.578  2.828  359,572,087
HALAC 0.2.9 Fast   1.172  2.672  376,323,138
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.188  2.360  375,079,841

Gubbology - 671.670.372 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 2.485  3.860  384,270,613
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 1.969  3.703  375,515,316
HALAC 0.2.9 Fast   1.594  3.547  410,038,434
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.453  3.063  395,058,374
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lossyWAV RESULTS
Busta Rhymes - 829.962.880 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 3.063  2.688  350,671,533  
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 2.891  4.453  285,344,736
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.985  2.094  305,126,996

Sean Paul - 525.065.800 bytes
HALAC 0.2.9 Normal 1.969  1.766  215,403,561
HALAC 0.3.0 Normal 1.860  2.876  171,258,352
HALAC 0.3.0 Fast   1.266  1.375  184,799,107
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FLAC / Re: Is Bandcamp truly lossless? 21 kHz cut-off
Last post by Porcus -
You might of course ask the band at https://www.kalandra.no/contact and hope it is read by someone nerdy enough.

Anyway, there are two free compilations at the label's bandcamp, and there are two Kalandra tracks on the most recent one. You see that they don't go all the way to 22, compared to say the top spectrogram which is off a track from label founder Einar Selvik (of Wardruna fame):
https://imgur.com/a/oVce6mG

And the first compilation:
https://imgur.com/a/Xg79O2E

Now playing: Kalandra's take on "Helvegen".
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_vumeter
Last post by 2tec -
Quote from: Air KEN on
@2tec / Thank you for creating such an amazing page (Skin *.bin).
You're welcome.  I add new meter skins to the list as I find them. There's also a list of Foobar2000 themes and I'm working on a theme gallery,

It's the least I could do given how much Peter and the other developers have done.

Credit should really go to all the meter skin developers who've done such an impressive job for free.
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AAC - Tech / Re: AAC frame lengths
Last post by Klymins -
Quote from: saratoga on
The link above is for an HEv1/v2 compatible decoder.  No idea about xHE (USAC).

Normal transform codecs support two transform lengths at a time, so that is what AAC provides.  The WMA codecs were the only ones I am aware of that has supported more than 2 lengths in the same file, and 25 years later that idea seems to have been forgotten along with WMA. 



I couldn't understand what the link gives. But, do you have an idea about why normal transform codecs support two transform lengths at a time?