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Support - (fb2k) / Re: A possible Xing VBR tag issue
Last post by A_Man_Eating_Duck -
I just gave this a test using the standalone winLAME 2021 release 1 and Foobar2000 v2.1 32bit (2023-09-22). I also tested a portable install of foobar2000 v1.6.16 with the same results.

I created a 1 minute single channel wave file of silence in audacity and used winLAME to encode it using the HQ: hifi setting (-V2 --vbr-new). The resulting mp3 is reported in Foobar2000 as being 128kbps and the length 0:14.956.

the orginal wav
Code: [Select]
Duration : 1:00.000 (2 646 000 samples)
Sample rate : 44100 Hz
Channels : 1
Bits per sample : 16
Bitrate : 706 kbps
Codec : PCM
Encoding : lossless

The MP3 encoded by winLAME
Code: [Select]
Duration : 0:14.956 (659 567 samples)
Sample rate : 44100 Hz
Channels : 1
Bitrate : 128 kbps
Codec : MP3
Codec profile : MP3 CBR
Encoding : lossy
Tag type : id3v2.4
Embedded cuesheet : no

Samples attached.
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Support - (fb2k) / A possible Xing VBR tag issue
Last post by wheelie -
Windows 10 and foobar2000 v2.0 [x64] standalone here.

Recently I converted some flac files to mp3 with WinLAME. I noticed that fb2k showed the duration time of mp3 incorrectly. I thought it was WinLAME issue and informed the dev. I provided a flac and an mp3 file. After running some test the results were suggesting that there might be a bug in fb2k:

Quote:
"I examined the Xing VBR tags that the LAME-produced and foobar2000-fixed files provide, and they are nearly identical and within the Xing VBR tag specifications. I also checked the files using ffprobe from FFmpeg and they report a correct playback time. So I suppose there might be an error in foobar2000."

About the mentioned "foobar2000-fixed" thingie, quote:
"VLC can correctly show duration of VBR files. I guess they scan the whole mp3 file. foobar2000 doesn't do this, but offers a menu item "right-click > Utilities > Fix VBR MP3 header...", which fixes the duration for foobar2000. It does this by adding a Xing INFO tag that the unmodified mp3 file is missing, which is strange, since it should have been written by LAME..."

Source here.
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: Descript Audio Codec (.dac) - 90x smaller than .wav?
Last post by rc55 -
Quote from: C.R.Helmrich on
Quote from: rc55 on
... it's made a 40MB exe ...
This does not include the weights file which is ~300MB. The weights file contains the model data used to encode and decode the audio and is a necessity, and the model is not interchangeable. You have to use the same model to decode any encoded file.
Thanks for the analysis! Out of curiosity: could you 7zip (preset Ultra) that 40MB exe and 300MB weight file and let us know what file size comes out? That would be a rough estimate of how much room for reduction there is.

Thanks,

Chris

Happy to oblige!
dac.exe 41,865,797 bytes
dac.7z 41,456,443 bytes

weights.pth 306,720,768 bytes
weights.7z 278,740,892 bytes
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Audio Hardware / Onboard MB Sound vs Schitt Modi?
Last post by AudioNirvana3824 -
Hi, I'm wondering if I'd notice a difference between my Onboard sound from my motherboard vs an External DAC such as the Schitt Modi. I use to be an amateur audio engineer and have a M-Audio ProFire 610 from back in the day. So getting into external DACs interests me.

My chain is
Realtek ALC98 > Mini-plug-RCA > Source Switching Box > AudioSource AMP100 > Speakers
The AMP100 contains volume and balance controls so no need for a preamp. I'm on a fixed income so if external DACs are just snake oil please let me know. I'm a member of AudioKarma and folks there talk constantly of the noise problem in desktops.

Of course I could also just throw the ProFire in the chain and let it do the job. I have a new PC with Windows 11. I used to be a Linux user and the ProFire wasn't well supported under Linux.

Thanks so much.

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foobar2000 mobile / Re: Report a whole track album playback bug V1.4
Last post by pyr452 -
Quote from: Peter on
I've been trying to find matching crash reports in Google Play, but they've done something weird with the system, probably to "protect privacy", and no useful info can be extracted whatsoever (no stack traces etc).
Maybe it's some bug that only shows up on Android 4.1.
Will the new release version actually still support 4.1 after Google has raised the minimum requirements?
Quote from: yisisixu on
1. i open the CUE file.
Could you post that file?
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Support - (fb2k) / Updating from older Portable Foobar 2000
Last post by renderMan -
Hello!

I have a pretty old Foobar2k portable version 1.6.16 and I would like to get it updated. I noticed there is no longer a portable download available. When I attempt to place the fb2k portable dir into my program files (x86) and run the newest foobar (32-bit) installer it will not work since it's the portable version that I have.

Any ideas how I can update it while keeping all the hard work I've done on my Foobar over the past 20 years?

I'm using Windows 11 Pro, 22H2, OS Build 22621.2283.

Error message:
The install directory 'C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000' contains configuration data, but foodbar2000 is not using portable mode. This is no longer supported since foobar2000 v2.0.

Thanks!
Di