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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JSplitter (splitter + SMP x64 alternative)
Last post by LUR -
Quote from: regor on
Win 11 + foobar v1.6.18: Crash with 4.0 version as soon as a panel is added into layout or at foobar quit.
I have exactly the same thing. It happens only with 1.6.18 and only in portable installation. In standard installation with 1.6.18 it's OK, and with 2.x everything is fine with any installation option. I haven't yet figured out why this is happening with the new JS engine (which is why 3.7.0 works fine, that's the only difference between the branches), so far it looks like an incompatibility of the libraries that foobar2000 1.6.18 itself is compiled and shipped with
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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by skamp -
Quote from: Porcus on
* what utilities user has at their hands - one that quickly finds orphaned symlinks, or one that quickly finds "lonely .wv hardlinks"?

Maybe I misunderstood myself. If someone has orphaned symlinks because they moved their source, that's their fault. I don't know how one could find themselves with orphaned hard links, unless they decided to move (not copy) the source (or the lossy parts) to a different storage device (hard links only work on a single storage device).

Obviously, with the hard link solution, the idea is to archive / back up the whole hybrid collection, and copy the lossy files (and possibly hard linked artwork) to a different device (a digital audio player, smartphone, whatever). Those copies are indeed disposable, as long as you keep the full hybrid collection backed-up.
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Development - (fb2k) / Re: Preview SDK and disappearing dialog buttons
Last post by marc2k3 -
I just noticed the heights in my resource file are wrong. I even copy/pasted it in the first post and didn't notice at the time - only now.

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IDD_DIALOG_STYLE DIALOGEX 0, 0, 330, 200
CONTROL    "", IDC_LIST_STYLE, "SysListView32", LVS_ALIGNLEFT | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP, 0, 0, 330, 256

The list control far exceeds the dialog height so your change has actually exposed my bug whereas the previous behaviour was hiding it.

So sorry about that. It looks like your change is good and can be left in.



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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by skamp -
Quote from: Porcus on
You can of course spend much more time WavPacking your files, with the -x4 switch […] there is a big jump in encoding time from -x3 to -x4 as the latter uses a different approach.

I'd love to hear from the master himself (David Bryant) if re-transcoding from -fx3 to -fx4 would be worth it! Especially with a lossy average bitrate of 384 kbps (which is, according to his documentation, "essentially transparent"). It is my understanding that the -x value helps with lossy quality. The difference in file sizes between my current -fx3 WVH files and my original --best FLAC collection is so marginal, I don't care about slight storage gains.

Quote from: Porcus on
* what utilities user has at their hands - one that quickly finds orphaned symlinks, or one that quickly finds "lonely .wv hardlinks"?

Isn't that the job of the operating system, as opposed to a specific app?