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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_playlist_revive

Last post by BlackRitus - Today at 11:22

@Moderation: Please remove the dead link from the first post completely.
No one benefits from it and it's confusing.
There are constantly users claiming they couldn't find it / it's offline, especially when they look at the date.
And then they think

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[attachment=5807:foo_play...t_revive.zip]

is the new link, which also doesn't work...

Please just edit it, no one will be mad at you.

General Audio / Re: Swinsian on MAC, awesome!

Last post by Maurits - Today at 11:07

I'm amazed that it's been around since 2011 apparently (https://swinsian.com/support/changelog/) and I've never heard of it.

Thanks for this, I'm going to have a look as it looks quite promising.

General Audio / Re: Do you keep "hi-rez" downloads as hi-rez, or do you convert?

Last post by Fairy - Today at 10:35

I have downsampled hires files before to 44/16 FLAC and couldn't notice any difference. Nowadays I keep the original file in FLAC format. Just because I have no space issues and the rest is maybe just for peace of mind I don't know. I'll have to do some ABXing sometime with 192KHz files against 44.1 upsampled to 192KHz files to see if I notice any difference. I think I cannot.

I only downsample if it is needed. I've had a 64KHz album once that just doesn't play on any hardware I own. That was a very strange (non-standard?) spec. After conversion to 16/44 it worked perfectly.

Audio Hardware / Re: Objective measurements of portable players using df-metric

Last post by Serge Smirnoff - Today at 10:21

Good question. To be honest, I don't know. My speculative guess is -35dB (histogram median) for portable audio. I would love to test some perfectly designed player in order to have high anchor. Another question - what player is considered as good/best sounding?

For testing non-portable audio components (receivers, transports, amplifiers) I need precision audio interface for acquisition of analog signal. For these devices Df values will be lower.

If you mean ideal device in mathematical sense, all Df values will be -Inf dB. Current accuracy of Df computation is -145 dB so all of them will be around this value ))

General - (fb2k) / Request for help on my own skin

Last post by Loigzorn - Today at 09:39

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum as I`m to foobar2000. I guess you could call me a newbie

So I'm not sure if this is the right place to post such request.
In the last few weeks I took my first steps to create my first own Skin and atm it looks likes in the picture below.
I do like how it looks but I think I have some kind of bug in my coding. Right now I'm at a point where I don't know how to solve it on my own. So I hope you can take a look at it. The problem is: sometimes if a new song starts or if I start playing a different playlist it switches to one of the other views. For example form "Playlist" to "Bio".

The related code looks like this:

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$puts(back.color,42-44-46)
$puts(font.color,215-215-215)
$puts(font_dark.color,85-85-85)
$puts(button_h.color,0-250-206)
$puts(button.color,0-235-191)

//--MAIN PANEL SWITCHER

$ifequal($get_ps_global(showpanel),1,
$showpanel_c(Playlist,1)
$showpanel_c(Lyrics,1)
$showpanel_c(PlayItem,1)
$puts(PlaylistButton,$get(button.color)),
$showpanel_c(Playlist,0)
$puts(PlaylistButton,100-100-100))

$ifequal($get_ps_global(showpanel),2,
$showpanel_c(Bio,1)
$showpanel_c(Lyrics,1)
$showpanel_c(PlayItem,1)
$puts(BioButton,$get(button.color)),
$showpanel_c(Bio,0)
$puts(BioButton,100-100-100))

$ifequal($get_ps_global(showpanel),3,
$showpanel_c(Youtube,1)
$showpanel_c(Lyrics,0)
$showpanel_c(PlayItem,0)
$puts(YoutubeButton,$get(button.color)),
$showpanel_c(Youtube,0)
$puts(YoutubeButton,100-100-100))

$textbutton(20,20,100,50,Playlist,Playlist,SETGLOBAL:showpanel:1;
REFRESH,
fontcolor:245-245-245 brushcolor:$get(PlaylistButton),
fontcolor:255-255-255 brushcolor:$get(button_h.color))

$textbutton(135,20,100,50,Bio,Bio,SETGLOBAL:showpanel:2;
REFRESH,
fontcolor:245-245-245 brushcolor:$get(BioButton),
fontcolor:255-255-255 brushcolor:$get(button_h.color))

$textbutton(250,20,100,50,Youtube,Youtube,SETGLOBAL:showpanel:3;
REFRESH,
fontcolor:245-245-245 brushcolor:$get(YoutubeButton),
fontcolor:255-255-255 brushcolor:$get(button_h.color))

The first time this bug occurred was as I implemented the second panel switcher on the left side. It is written on a differnet layer so I don't know why they should be related to each other in any way.

If there is anything missing to find a solution please let me know!

Thank you kindly for your time

Loigzorn

Opus / Opus 1.3-rc2

Last post by jmvalin - Today at 06:46

I just released Opus 1.3-rc2. This is a second release candidate for the upcoming Opus 1.3. Changes include:

Fixing an issue with bandwidth detection
Enabling Ambisonics support by default
Using mapping families 2 and 3 for Ambisonics (instead of experimental families 253 and 254)
Enabling hardening by default

This release also comes with three other releases:

libopusenc 0.2
opusfile 0.11
opus-tools 0.2

With these releases, opus-tools now depends on both libopusenc for encoding and on opusfile for decoding. The main difference is that opusenc is now able to use look-ahead, which helps when encoding speech and music at low-ish bitrates. Please give all of these a try and report any problems.

Source code: opus-1.3-rc2.tar.gz
Win32 binaries: opus-tools-0.2-win32.zip
Win64 binaries: opus-tools-0.2-win64.zip

Edit: Add win64 binaries

General Audio / Re: Do you keep "hi-rez" downloads as hi-rez, or do you convert?

Last post by bdunham7 - Today at 02:12

I see a lot of derision for high bitrates and "peace of mind" thinking. OK, I accept the consensus that 96K AAC with a good encoder is "good enough". However, I have more storage than time and I have no need to economize on space, within reason. I see no reason not to retain higher bitrates, especially for lossy--even that 320kbps MP3 doesn't cost me much space. I archive everything as it is received or recorded, whether that is MP3, FLAC, DSD or the 24/96 "needle drop". Then I typically convert to FLAC of one sort or another for convenience and true gapless playback.

Audio Hardware / Re: Objective measurements of portable players using df-metric

Last post by 2tec - Today at 01:37

Quote from: Serge Smirnoff on 2018-09-14 15:03:52

At least there will be some anchor devices which are well-known as good and bad, so Df values will become more meaningful.

For comparison's sake, what would the hypothetical result of an ideal device look like?

Opus / Re: Opus 1.3-rc

Last post by moisesmcardona - Today at 00:32

Quote from: ThaCrip on 2018-09-18 23:11:30

@soundping

Any chance there is a 64bit one? ; I ask because those encode files quicker than the 32bit.

but speaking of 64bit.... is there even a official Opus 64bit? ; because I noticed in the Foobar2000 Encoders Pack it only offers the 32bit one.

I compile the Opus GitHub repos using Visual Studio 2017 using the Release x64 configuration

In Foobar2000, you should be able to locate the opusenc.exe file. I didn't installed the encoder pack but I have it running the local executable. The same applied for EAC to rip Audio CD to Opus directly.

General - (fb2k) / Re: Newbie in foobar

Last post by spamer - Today at 00:21

wow...it's was so simple as put "%_directoryname%|%tracknumber%. %artist% - %title%" as view script.

next step will be to parse one by one...

$puts(index, $strstr(%_directoryname%,' - ')) >
$put(artista, $substr(%_directoryname%,0,index)) >
$puts(resto, $substr(%_directoryname%,index, $len(%_directoryname%)))

$puts(index, $strstr($get(resto),' - '))
$put(album, $substr($get(resto),0,index))
$puts(resto, $substr($get(resto),$get(index), $len($get(resto))))

$puts(index, $strstr($get(resto),' - '))
$put(year, $substr($get(resto),0,index))
$put(resto, $substr($get(resto),$get(index), $len($get(resto))))

not working but i'll get there.

thanks anamorphic to alert me to documentation from a component!