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General Audio / Re: Can higher bitrates sometimes sound worse than lower ones
Last post by DVDdoug -
No.

...As long as you define "better" as sounding more like the uncompressed original and the CODEC isn't badly designed.

The bitrate is (partially) related to how much information is thrown-away to make a smaller file and with a higher bitrate less data is thrown-away.

But you may prefer the lower less-accurate bitrate.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: [Not My Release] ELPlaylist
Last post by tromd -
Ok ignore my previous post for now, what I really want to know is how to expand all subgroups within a group on a single click? At default only the first subgroup is expanded.

Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to collapse subgroups (in this case discs) into the main header. I've currently set to hide the subgroup headers if the main header is collapsed, but since only the first subgroup is expanded the other subgroups remain invisible.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: foobar2000 2.25 Preview 2025-05-09 -> UPnP
Last post by papavlos -
Quickly checked - IT WORKS! THANKS!  :D

Finally we can abandon (very) old "foo_upnp" 32-bit only plugin (as its developer has abandoned it also many years ago) and migrate to modern 64-bit  native environment.
It works also under Linux-WINE in x64 wineprefix.
And regarding DSD: I confirm that we have FIRST 100% working solution for foobar2000 for streaming native DSD playback over home network.

Foobar2000 becomes FREE and complete alternative for other commercial solutions. And it is light years ahead of them, in terms of usability and flexibility. Seriously.  8)
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General Audio / Can higher bitrates sometimes sound worse than lower ones
Last post by fred-hy -
because of poor optimisation?

For example, let's say an encoder is optimised to give the best quality between 128 kbps and 256 kbps. Could using 320 kbps with this encoder sound worse than 256 kbps due to that?

Do any encoders have this problem, especially FDK and opus-tools?
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Biography Discussion
Last post by sveakul -
Thanks for the update!

Can anyone point me to/describe how I would update from 1.4.2 mod 1 to 1.4.2 mod 2 without losing my current settings?

I am running JSplitter 3.6.1.14 with Foobar v2.24.5, 64-bit.  Biography is the only SMP package I have installed.

I appreciate any help you can give.
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Audio Hardware / Re: Question in-ears magnetic driver
Last post by classicaran88 -
understood then the magnetic force exerted by a large 29" CRT TV does not come close to causing magnetic damage to the dual magnetic dynamic drivers used in In-Ears headphones KZ EDX Pro and KZ EDC Pro

it is something very different from the comparison with 2.5" HDDs that demagnetize more easily