Best Quality for Lossy Encoding of Audiobooks?
You can hear difference if you convert in 64kbps, even with AAC. I like AAC 128kbps audiobooks but fre:ac uses FAAC which is outdated, use foobar2000 + qaac to create them. I assume OGG aoTuV 128kbps...
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QAAC discussion, questions, feature requests, etc.
QUOTE (Anakunda @ Nov 27 2012, 12:25) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Long awaited qaac 2.5 is out! 2.05
View Articlewhy can WMP receive CD metadata but foobar2000/dbpoweramp can't?
Windows Media Player does not use gracenote, it uses AMG, which is then added to internally by Microsoft.dBpoweramp uses 2 commercial databases, GD3 and AMG.There will always be small cases where a...
View ArticleCUETools versions 1.9.5 through 2.1.4 (current)
CUETools only verifies one rip at a time. Your request would require using logs from two different rips (one from an 'image' rip and one from a 'tracks' rip) and combine them into a single...
View ArticleR128GAIN: An EBU R128 compliant loudness scanner
hi. just tried this for the first time, very impressive. i am able to successfully scan:FLACWAVWMAMP3M4A (ALAC)M4A (AAC)and successfully write tags for all except M4A (AAC). The program crashes for M4A...
View ArticlePlease help me interpreting this EAC-log
QUOTE (korth @ Nov 28 2012, 15:11) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>From the EAC site:QUOTE Question: When using burst mode, EAC also shows up timing problems, are these really errors or what?Answer: No, burst...
View ArticleOpus is now RFC6716, version 1.0.1 released!
QUOTE (Yakov @ Oct 10 2012, 20:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Really? I don't think that 3mb was 24-bit 96 KHz. Is there a way to find out what an opus file is, in terms of bit rate, bit depth, sampling...
View ArticleShould HA promote a more rigorous listening test protocol?
QUOTE (greynol @ Nov 28 2012, 15:51) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>If the contenders are statistically tied, changing the anchors isn't going to magically untie them. Also, having only a few listeners and a...
View ArticleBest Quality for Lossy Encoding of Audiobooks?
QUOTE (IgorC @ Nov 28 2012, 14:27) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>1.0.1 is actually restricted VBR. Tonality (guitar as well) is an issue for 1.0.1Maybe You will want to try the last experimental branch which...
View Articleeac-crc: A Linux command-line script to compute the CRCs from EAC LOGs
Version 1.1 availablel now. Bugfix release, please upgrade.Changelog: Bugfix: Do not print a crc of "00000000" when there is a problem with the input file (it doesn't exist, is damaged, etc.). Instead,...
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Negative gains may result in slightly lower bitrates
I suppose that this makes sense, in that some of the quieter sections of the track will be attenuated down to (near) silence, so the lossy encoder only needs to approximate a narrower section of the...
View ArticleLame 3.99.5z, a functional extension
a) I can keep all the --adbr_xxx options if this is preferred. I just wanted to have things simpler again, but that's not essential to me.b) Silence is encoded as in original Lame with the exception...
View ArticleAlicia Keys: did the era of lossy mastering just begin?
QUOTE (Anakunda @ Nov 28 2012, 22:05) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I don't get however why the hard cutoff. Never seen that on CD audio.Check any CD from the 80s. I don't recall any which does not have this...
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Should HA promote a more rigorous listening test protocol?
QUOTE (Dynamic @ Nov 28 2012, 16:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>My point was echoing David's about the potential to compress the range of ratings given to codecs vastly superior to the low anchor in order...
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Alicia Keys: did the era of lossy mastering just begin?
QUOTE (C.R.Helmrich @ Nov 28 2012, 17:04) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What scares me are the lines going to 22 kHz. This is solid gold digital waveform clipping.I've found clipping on Third (Portishead...
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MiniDisc: Optical to Optical ?
QUOTE (Xrcr9709 @ Nov 26 2012, 23:35) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I remember that, but I think the software was "Open MG Jukebox". I had bought one of the first MDs to announce this functionnaly. I...
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