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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by skamp -
Quote from: Porcus on
Why transcode lossies? They could just be copied, right?

I'm not sure I expressed myself clearly. I only transcoded my FLAC collection to WavPack Hybrid, which creates both lossy and lossless files. I just got rid of my Vorbis collection since I now have the lossy part of my WavPack collection.

Quote from: Porcus on
Will copying symbolic links (from Apple filesystem using the relevant copy utilities) to a portable device copy the files and not merely shortcuts?

Like I replied to nu774, macOS does the right thing when transferring symlinks to the iPhone: it transfers the actual files that the symlinks point to.
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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by skamp -
Quote from: nu774 on
It may be an obvious point, but what is the reason for using a hard link instead of a symbolic link?

Not so obvious, I guess.

  • My own APEv2 tagging utility doesn't break anything. I've tested it after reading your post.
  • macOS handles symbolic links fine when transferring audio to my iPhone. That's in favor of symlinks.
  • The main issue with symbolic links is that they break if you move the source for whatever reason. That doesn't happen with hard links.
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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by Porcus -
Quote from: skamp on
converted my entire FLAC + Vorbis collection
Why transcode lossies? They could just be copied, right?

Quote from: nu774 on
It may be an obvious point, but what is the reason for using a hard link instead of a symbolic link?
Will copying symbolic links (from Apple filesystem using the relevant copy utilities) to a portable device copy the files and not merely shortcuts?
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FLAC / Re: Multithreading
Last post by Porcus -
It is more complicated. The following apply whether I use chcp 1252 or chcp 65001:
Fails: µ in infile, as: --in fileµ.flac --out outfile.flac
Works: µ in outfile only, as: --in infile.flac --out µ.flac
Works: Greek latter tau in outfile only, as: --in infile.flac --out "Tesτ.flac"
But fails: Greek letter zeta in outfile, as: --in infile.flac --out "Tesζ.flac"



Also, from a bit more fiddling around with speed:
It looks like flaccid --gasc becomes slower for longer files, and thus, the one I aligned to roughly match flac -p is now beaten at speed. Also, flac -pj4 and flaccid --workers 4 diverge as single-threads don't ... weird.

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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JSplitter (splitter + SMP x64 alternative)
Last post by TF3RDL -
Quote from: LUR on
JSplitter v4.0.0

● [BUG] Fixed JS engine memory usage, thus eliminating errors when launching and running scripts
● [BUG] Corrected script loading and fixed stack trace output
● [FEATURE] Standard JSplitter context menu added for layout editing mode in DUI (component menus are not supported by CUI in layout editing mode).
● [FEATURE] Added ‘Pseudo-transparency’ column to the ‘Panel List’ window for quick access to the ‘Support pseudo transparency’ option, previously available only in the context menu of the panel frame.
● Updated JS engine to SpiderMonkey 128.9.0esr
● Updated the code editor engine to Scintilla 5.5.6

@LUR, what do you think about implementing fb.GetAudioChunk() (as in JSP3 and perhaps SMP mods iirc) into JSplitter?
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FLAC / Re: Multithreading
Last post by cid42 -
It's probably codepage stuff, flaccid just uses fopen so this applies: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396567/is-there-a-standard-way-to-do-an-fopen-with-a-unicode-string-file-path

MS trying to give C interoperability the old yeller treatment decades ago really was a dick move, all this _wfopen nonsense and a million other examples. Zero respect MS, zero. The day windows uses the Linux kernel as the main kernel and an NT kernel as the one they bolt on with LSW for compatibility, that will be a good day.
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General Audio / Re: The "business model" of hybrid codecs with correction files
Last post by nu774 -
It may be an obvious point, but what is the reason for using a hard link instead of a symbolic link?
When A and B are hard links to the same file, updating the contents of A may, in some cases, cause the link to break, at which point A and B become separate files. If the file is opened and edited directly, the link remains intact, but if the file is copied, updated, and moved back, the new file is renamed as either A or B, resulting in the link breaking.
The issue is that whether the link breaks or not depends on how the update is implemented—in other words, it varies depending on the software used. So, if you want to avoid breaking the link unintentionally, you need to be careful. This is not a problem when updates do not occur (such as with daily snapshot backups), but for audio files, you may want to write tags, which could result in modifications.
Because of this, I tend to choose symbolic links rather than hard links when dealing with files that might be updated.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JSplitter (splitter + SMP x64 alternative)
Last post by sveakul -
Quote from: LUR on
JSplitter v4.0.0

● [BUG] Fixed JS engine memory usage, thus eliminating errors when launching and running scripts
● [BUG] Corrected script loading and fixed stack trace output
● [FEATURE] Standard JSplitter context menu added for layout editing mode in DUI (component menus are not supported by CUI in layout editing mode).
● [FEATURE] Added ‘Pseudo-transparency’ column to the ‘Panel List’ window for quick access to the ‘Support pseudo transparency’ option, previously available only in the context menu of the panel frame.
● Updated JS engine to SpiderMonkey 128.9.0esr
● Updated the code editor engine to Scintilla 5.5.6
Thank you LUR for releasing new 4.0.0 version!  Installed over 3.6.1.14 on Foobar v2.25 64-bit Windows 11, no crashes, runs WilB Biography just fine.  We appreciate your continued work.
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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: Please let user increase list font size
Last post by Guildencrantz -
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Quote from: marc2k3 on
I don't have a mac but I think it should already be possible based on what is documented here...

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Mac:Layout

Thanks, but I couldn’t find where to input these configs.
Is it a separate config file?
Is it somewhere in the settings?

Thanks

View > Layout > Edit Layout...