strange results using low-pass filter ( lame 3.98/3.99.5 )
QUOTE (greynol @ Aug 16 2013, 08:47) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (BFG @ Aug 15 2013, 20:43) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>How's it sound in lame 3.100a2?(I'd also be curious what the -Y switch does with it,...
View ArticleQAAC: discussion, questions, feature requests, etc.
Simply put, when valid bit depth is 16/24 and compression ratio is around 25% for both codec on the effective 16bits part, ALAC file will become 3 times larger than FLAC one.24bit ALAC file always...
View ArticleBiophysics, Limitations of Shannon and Issues with ABX Testing
QUOTE (Wayne Highwood @ Aug 15 2013, 06:39) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (Woodinville @ Aug 14 2013, 18:01) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What ever does what Arnold said have to do with what you said?We're...
View ArticleDaphile - Audiophile Music Server & Player OS
New test release available at www.daphile.com!CHANGES on August 17th 2013:Initial DSD file support:- DSF (.dsf) and DSDIFF (.dff) supported (both DSD64 and DSD128)- no native DSD-over-USB (DoP) yet....
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Human hearing beats FFT
Over 10 years ago, for my master thesis, I wrote an algorithm that determines nearly exact frequency values from an FFT transform - it can find any frequency as long as they are far enough away from...
View ArticleWhich is the best lossless codec?
QUOTE (Dave_Scream @ Aug 17 2013, 12:31) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>strange. maybe its because I used 24bit 48khz wav input? and lossless codecs are not optimized good to compress >22khz frequencies? so...
View ArticleMetadata/tag mapping between FLAC, mp3, and UPnP/DLNA
QUOTE (2Bdecided @ Aug 16 2013, 23:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Have fun.*twitch*We'll see how much damage I can do in a week.
View ArticleEAC CRC's mismatch, but always in the same way
Right, but without log files indicating what is what, how is anyone to know?Regarding validating burns, your write offset may also result in the replacement of non-null samples with null ones,...
View ArticleInternet Radio with normalized Program Levels possible? Yes they are&#
Interesting. You might try posting in forums.winamp.com to see what the developer(s) think.
View ArticleFLAC 1.3.0 has been released
See this post, it's about the binaries: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2...uly/004274.htmlFurthermore, FLAC is (slowly) being moved away from sourceforge.
View ArticleCorrupted AAC file?
Hi,I'm a radio hobbyist, and I have a stream set up from my home scanner that archives anything it hears to MP4, and streams out so I can listen to it on my phone. It came to my attention that...
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Tape artifacts
You are talking about the 'damaged tape'-like sound right? No idea what it would be called...The reason why you need to fix the audio before applying Dolby B is this:Dolby B acts differently depending...
View Article.umx to .wav
give openMPT a try, i've been using it recently to convert some old videogame music and it works great.http://openmpt.org/
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CUETools versions 1.9.5 through 2.1.4 (current)
Hello - and for CUETools -To try what I describe 3 paragraphs down:I downloaded the testing / devel http://www.cuetools.net/install/ ..... CUETools_2.1.5.zipI run a distro closely tracking Ubuntu 13...
View ArticleSound quality evaluation!
Converting those samples to flac would save some space/bandwidth.But anyway, if you're asking which sample sounds best, I'd go with sample B. A has no low end and C is overwhelmingly low end. B is a...
View ArticleOgg and Cover Art
Can anyone recommend a good player that supports METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE? (windows/linux/android)
View Article7z beats other codecs on 24bit 48khz sample
QUOTE (Jan S. @ Aug 17 2013, 03:25) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I fail to see how this is interesting that you found one file where 7z wins.I tried on an album:wav: 678MB7z: 572MBrar: 373MBwv: 255MBI would...
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