Strange Characters In Tag
Hello,A buddy of mine found a disc with some MP3s burned on it. When we returned to the vehicle I played the disc in the Alpine receiver. All the tracks seem to play normally, but some of the tracks...
View ArticleDeclining sound quality of CD players from 90s to present
QUOTE (duncan1979 @ May 31 2013, 16:48) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'd be SO grateful if someone who knows anything about these things could confirm that it's not just me that's crazy and there's been some...
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QUOTE (2Bdecided @ Jul 17 2012, 13:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm concerned that many audio systems don't have a single digital gain control, but have some analogue gain as well (or multiple digital...
View Articlelame3100k - bringing constraint VBR to Lame
QUOTE (Kamedo2 @ Jun 3 2013, 19:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>In case quality increase is minimal per bitrate increase, do not increase the quality and save the bit. In case bitrate increase is minimal...
View ArticleWhy do ~70 of 220 CDs contain HTOA of around 32 frames?
Thanks Kees.FWIW, I'm pretty sure that I was able to reorganize the audio data in order against an alternate pressing which did not have the issue and verify it against the AR database. In other words,...
View ArticleWhy so much spam?
I went ahead and fixed that and took the liberty to make a few other edits. I'll post what it was prior to editing in case there is a desire to revert my changes.QUOTE -> 14.It is acceptable to...
View ArticleA call for better parsability of command-line codec output
QUOTE (skamp @ Jun 3 2013, 23:00) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>If you don't have any specific pet-peeves or requirements, I suggest adopting Thomas' format (or some variation of it), which works very...
View ArticleLAME Q Switch
The official documentation, even the latest, defines only two groups of -q setting for VBR rather than the three that exist in reality, and it does not divulge that certain pairs like -q8/7 and -q5/6...
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TAudioConverter
Nice work, ozok. Looking forward to support of new TAK 2.3.0 when it's out of beta. I just might re-encode my library.
View ArticleCUETools DB
QUOTE (Gregory S. Chudov @ Jun 3 2013, 22:15) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Does it let you convert without repair? I only have one theory so far - maybe there's an oversized (above 1m) artwork in source...
View ArticleResidual Partition aka Rice option
Interesting results. I would suspect - though haven't tested - that varying the LPC order (-l), block size (-b) and LP coefficient search (-p or -q) would further affect the results.
View ArticleCUETools versions 1.9.5 through 2.1.4 (current)
Looks like it, thank you.Previously, source code of the older versions could be easily downloaded from the first page. It was very convenient.Let version is the old, but I'm satisfied with everything,...
View Articleembed live captions/transcription as part of mp3 file?
There is an ID3 tag named SYLT for "synchronized lyrics". You need to find an MP3 player (or plug-in ) that supports it.There is a lyric plug-in for foobar2000. (I have not tried it.)I believe...
View ArticleFLAC 1.3.0 has been released
I doubt it. As ktf indicated earlier, most of the changes affect specific use-cases: chances are that if they were relevant to your collection, you would already know that you needed the new version....
View Articlefree audio editors vs. professional ones
Completely off-topic question about video compression split to the correct subforum.
View Articlelame3100k - bringing constraint VBR to Lame
QUOTE (halb27 @ Jun 5 2013, 04:01) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks for your graphs. Unfortunately it doesn't help for further progress as it shows average bitrate.You mean average bitrate of one sample,...
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