Advanced ABX, New cross-platform ABX application Options

[googlebot]

Advanced ABX

No currently available ABX application is able to switch without audible transients between tracks. The resulting clicks and pops can both increase the number of false positive and false negative results. The former happens, when the type of clicking correlates to the type of switch: A/A or A/B. False negatives become more probable, when loud clicks desensitize your hearing or keep you from turning up the volume to more revealing listening levels.

Advanced ABX provides transient-free switching!


Other exclusive features:

• Impedes "fishing" for good results by design by enforcing a chosen number of rounds.
• Customizable transition length to adapt to different material, for example in- and out-of-phase audio data.
• Easily extendable transition mechanism: A very simple API allows scientists and developers to drop-in their own custom transition modules, for example to allow completely seamless switching.

Non-exclusive features:

• Computation of statistical significance (p-value), also known as "probability of guessing".
• Multi-threaded, low resource consumption.
• Cross platform Java binary. Custom Windows and Mac executables.
• Nice and simplistic GUI.
• Textual output for easy publication of results.

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Notes:

I could only test on a Mac, yet, where it works flawlessly. Please report wether it also works on other platforms. Input is currently WAV only, and the files must have identical format and length. The program is basically able to work with all PCM integer bit depths up to 32 bit, but in practice one is limited by ones specific JRE's capabilities. Java on the Mac, for example, is limited to 16 bit. High sample rates should not be a problem anywhere. The back-end already supports looping, it just isn't implemented in the GUI code, yet.

The source code is going to be released later on. Please don't drown me in feature requests, actual code submits are much preferred.

Download:

Go here.

This post has been edited by googlebot: May 1 2010, 21:53

[krmathis]

Currently, my next interest is comparing high resolution tracks* with a native Mac ABX tool, basically a port of AA to Objective-C. I have gotten less and less satisfied with Java's abilities to handle anything else but 44.1kHz/16 bit on different platforms, and even the latter may suck depending on your setup.

Now, that would be "something".
All the trouble with ABC/HR Java some years back have made me shy away from Java in mix with audio. A native Mac OS X application on the other hand would score a lot more interest from me...

5 years since I first asked for one -> Seeking ABX software for Mac OS X, any good one out there?

[Billytheonion]

I have been using this on OS X http://emptymusic.com/software/ABXer.html

It's lightweight loads fast plays almost all file formats natvie os x app.

This post has been edited by Billytheonion: Jun 8 2010, 19:21