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Topic: Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon (Read 5671 times) previous topic - next topic
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Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

I had converted my .flac collection to .mp3 in foobar2000 with -V 0 --vbr-new, and the very first song on Dark Side of the Moon labeled "Speak To Me/Breathe" has a horribly loud clicking noise for the first few seconds. It does this on -V 2 as well, but it is not there on --vbr-old.


Is anyone else getting this? And should I be afraid that my other music may exhibit horrible artifacts as well? I'm going to reconvert this album with --vbr-old, but I have lost the rest of my .flac music and would need to rerip the whole collection over again. This is the first in dozens I've tested since the conversion that have had a bad artifact, I hope it's the only.

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #1 –
By any chance is your computer overclocked?

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #2 –
Quote from: pdq on
By any chance is your computer overclocked?



Nope, as a matter of fact, the first conversion was on my old AM2 3800+ (non dual core). After finding this error, I re-ripped the DSotM to .flac and converted it to .mp3 on my new e6600 system (error was still there). I lost all my .flac files when I upgraded my mobo and CPU, but my .mp3 files saved the system upgrade.

Maybe I'll try ripping the CD directly to mp3 in EAC, see if it changes anything.

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #3 –
I have encoded my DSotM CD to mp3 using -V2 --vbr-new and I do not hear any of the clicking noises you mention. This is strange 

I will try and upload a small clip of my encode to the files section.

Cheers
audiomars
Reason is immortal, all else mortal
- Pythagoras

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #4 –
Very odd, I cannot reproduce the anomoly at the moment. It must have fixed itself after a reboot, but it really makes no sense why it was happening in the first place... Some odd error on the decoding end.



Maybe I'll come across it again if it's a conflict with other programs running.

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #5 –
Maybe a hardware glitch during the encoding? That would be nasty since it means something with your hardware isn't right (hence the question about the overclocking).
 

Nasty artifact with 3.97 --vbr-new on Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Fandango on
Maybe a hardware glitch during the encoding? That would be nasty since it means something with your hardware isn't right (hence the question about the overclocking).



It had to be on the decoding end, because the same file has no glitches after I rebooted.