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Christine Tham: Help - Foobar2000 0.9.5.6 playing back 44.1kHz WMA Lossless in 48kHz (Support - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:55:26 GMT

QUOTE(Peter @ Oct 11 2008, 06:55) [snapback]592913[/snapback]

Problem confirmed in 0.9.5.6.

Thanks Peter.

Actually, I spoke too soon, 0.9.5.5 seems to have problems too.

Although it will play the file at 44.1kHz, inspecting the properties of the audio track and the status bar still reports it at 48kHz.

There are also some audio dropouts 5 seconds before the end of the audio track - only in ASIO. I am not completely sure this is related to 44.1/48kHz - I'll play with player thread priority as well to see if it's CPU related (I am running Foobar on a very low powered CPU - Via C3 at 800MHz - because I wanted a completely fanless audio player - no moving parts!).

I can definitely confirm NO problems (including no audio dropouts) when playing MP3 or FLAC at 44.1kHz.

PS - the reason why WMA Lossless reports 48kHz as "decodable" - blame it on the AC97 spec and it's insistence on resampling everything to 48kHz. Microsoft wanted to allow the WMA decoder implementation to do the resampling (potentially at higher quality) rather than leaving it to the AC97 driver (most AC97 drivers have horrible resamplers).

I know for a fact there are some audio savvy engineers working at Microsoft - unfortunately they can't repair the "sins" of the past. In hindsight, AC97, kmixer et al included some poor design decisions.

tpijag: I havfe a problem with foobar not being able to play some files. (Support - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:53:49 GMT

Did you rescan the library?

terry

Falstaff: IBIZA by Br3tt (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:51:49 GMT

QUOTE(Sounds Blast @ Oct 10 2008, 23:48) [snapback]592922[/snapback]

Hey, Br3tt is there any chance you would consider trying to make something like this, show a little banner, or whatever you design, to be placed on the cover of the currently playing track if it's labeled (favorite), or (love)etc.., and that goes for favorite album too, so that a banner of some sort will either say favorite track, or favorite album? For this config and your kung-foo?

could be great to rate album, but there is no 'clean' way to do that. TAGs are supported by files, not by folder (album container), so tagging an album with a specific TAG have to be done on each track of the album and can't be done with a single button.

this step is essential before adding a such banner or star on the cover album.

if you have any idea to make it easily, i take /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Sounds Blast: IBIZA by Br3tt (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:48:30 GMT

Falstaff: foo_lastfm_radio (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:18:49 GMT

QUOTE(nausea @ Oct 10 2008, 23:08) [snapback]592918[/snapback]

Thanks for letting me know.

Is it something you can reproduce, or did it just happen once?

only once for now, can't reproduce it for now, sand by ... i'll give news if it come back /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

thanx for answer /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

a bug found :

- when i make this choice : File/Open Last.fm Radio Station/A custom Last.fm station.
it opens a little window to a specific new station, but if nothing is enterred and if i click the arrow at the top corner for closing this window, it close but i can't use foobar no more, all is blocked (bell sound at each click on my foobar window)

(CANCEL button close the window too and work fine after closing the window)

could you reproduce it ?

and fix it please ?

thanx

fbuser: [Not my release]foo_uie_panel_splitter (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:10:50 GMT

This bug is fixed now. Thanks to the dev.

Falstaff: [Not my release]foo_uie_panel_splitter (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:08:55 GMT

QUOTE(Spirit_of_the_ocean @ Oct 10 2008, 22:57) [snapback]592914[/snapback]

The code:
$imagebutton(50,50,50,50,C:\Programme\foobar2000_9.5.5\images\play.png,C:\Programme\foobar2000_9.5.5\images\playH.png,COMMAND:Play or Pause;REFRESH,,)

Works

i know, i've said it in a previous post above /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> (#99) but some other commands still don"t work, example :

$imagebutton(154,1,25,25,'./images/ibiza/bt/fav-off.png','./images/ibiza/bt/fav-on.png',CONTEXT:'Edit/Add to Current Playlist',,)

changed in ==>

$imagebutton(154,1,25,25,'./images/ibiza/bt/fav-off.png','./images/ibiza/bt/fav-on.png',CONTEXT:'Add to Current Playlist',,)

still do not work ! just an example

nausea: foo_lastfm_radio (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:08:03 GMT

Thanks for letting me know.

Is it something you can reproduce, or did it just happen once?

musicmusic: iPod manager (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:07:18 GMT

OK. Not sure what exactly happened then, but I'll keep some of the extra logging in next build anyway.

Stormtrooper: iPod manager (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:03:09 GMT

Good news: I went through and uninstalled iTunes again, and uninstalled "Apple Mobile Device Support" as well. Then I re-installed iTunes (7.5), and when I connected my iPod touch, Windows went through the device detection process as if I had connected it for the first time. And now the plugin works as well.

Roseval: More Snake Oil! (General Audio)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:58:02 GMT

Two other gems:

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/

http://www.shunmook.com/

(Thanks Woodinville)

All the gems on one page: http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/Fun/MachinaDynamica.htm

Spirit_of_the_ocean: [Not my release]foo_uie_panel_splitter (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:57:40 GMT

The code:
$imagebutton(50,50,50,50,C:\Programme\foobar2000_9.5.5\images\play.png,C:\Programme\foobar2000_9.5.5\images\playH.png,COMMAND:Play or Pause;REFRESH,,)

Works

Peter: Help - Foobar2000 0.9.5.6 playing back 44.1kHz WMA Lossless in 48kHz (Support - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:55:55 GMT

Problem confirmed in 0.9.5.6.

Apparently it's something that we get as a side effect of enabling support for multichannel decoding - for some braindead reason, 48KHz is reported as one of available decoding output formats for WMA lossless; we pick the best available format from the list so that's what we end decoding to - I could not find a way to determine the exact format that the file is encoded in. Apparently (NOT documented anywhere) we're supposed to pick the first reported format (index 0).

This will be fixed in the next release. Though knowing WMA nonsense, this fix will probably break something else.

Consider this a subtle hint to quit using WMA if you like your files decodable without weird problems.

musicmusic: iPod manager (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:53:02 GMT

As long as the last part of that matches up (apart from case) with the "serial" posted in the console, that looks good. I will send you a version with more logging shortly.

Falstaff: [Not my release]foo_uie_panel_splitter (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:51:27 GMT

truncating the command path do not resolve all the buttons i use in IBIZA or KUNG-FOO configs ...

i wait for a fixed new version of Panel Stack Splitter, i come back to previous version and wait for news from the developper, i hope he will find what's wrong in this new release...

good luck to him and thanx by advance.

Marc: I havfe a problem with foobar not being able to play some files. (Support - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:51:11 GMT

QUOTE(tpijag @ Oct 10 2008, 15:44) [snapback]592888[/snapback]

And is that location exactly where the file is located?

You might want to simply rescan the library in the chance that some small change regarding file location / name was made outside of foobar.

Library > rescan media library

terry

Exact same folder! That's what confusing.

Marc

Christine Tham: Help - Foobar2000 0.9.5.6 playing back 44.1kHz WMA Lossless in 48kHz (Support - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:46:53 GMT

Just to confirm, Foobar 0.9.5.5 plays the WMA files correctly at 44.1kHz so this is definitely a problem introduced with 0.9.5.6. No crackling or stuttering in ASIO.

Guess I'll just have to stick with the older version for a while.

Orikson: Searching a special Visualization (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:40:38 GMT

Hello,

I'm looking for a very special kind of visualization which should only generate different forms like squares, circles, stars and so on in different colors. This forms should move and change to the beat of the music. Here is an example of how it should exactly look like: Click me
Here are some shorter samples

Is there already such an visualization? If yes where can I get it. If not, how much work would it be to generate it? Are there any tutorials?

Tung: What does it mean when a clipped waveform on vinyl is "sloped&quo (General Audio)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:40:32 GMT

QUOTE(Axon @ Oct 10 2008, 14:29) [snapback]592885[/snapback]

QUOTE(Tung @ Oct 10 2008, 14:23) [snapback]592881[/snapback]

QUOTE(Axon @ Oct 10 2008, 14:12) [snapback]592878[/snapback]

QUOTE(Tung @ Oct 10 2008, 13:42) [snapback]592868[/snapback]

I'm in agreement with Cerberus.

I think it's related to the inability to accurately reproduce a square wave. As a result, the plateaus end up sloping, resulting in a recording that sounds "nicer" than the clipping a CD is capable of storing.

Plenty of records exist out there that reproduce square waves just fine. CBS STR 112, for starters.

OK.. I wonder what that waveform would look like when sampled from the same turntable setup as used on the OP?

As was discussed, there are two different turntables involved in the two different images, but certainly, my use of high-order highpass filtering in my rumble filter will skew things a lot in my setup.

I would bet if you digitally recorded a square wave signal from that test LP you referenced from both setups (I didn't catch the specs on your setups, btw) you'd see the same sloping situation, and you'd end up with a softer-sounding square wave.

And I tend to think the DM LPs are from the same brickwalled 2-tracks.

Falstaff: [Not my release]foo_uie_panel_splitter (3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k))

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:39:38 GMT

QUOTE(Andu @ Oct 10 2008, 22:28) [snapback]592904[/snapback]

Will you release a hotfix or a new version?

if i can fix all these new bugs or changes (developper only knows ...) i'll make a new release of my configs to make them compatible with this new version, if there is onnly one new problem that i can't fix, i'll do nothing and wait for a new release more clean ...

i check what other can have be changed ... tests continue