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...version of ogg vorbis files for use on a portable player. I'm using the -o option to redirect output to the LAME encoder. So far so good. However, I also want to do volume leveling using the replaygain tags. If I specify track (radio) gain, everything works fine, however, when I specify album (audiophile) gain, no gain is applied. I've had a look at the code, and as near as I can tell the problem is in here: line 775 of oggdec.c if(!send_to_stdout && audiophile || radio) { fprintf(stderr, audiophile ? " Running in Album/Audiophile mode\...

what would be the best string setting for ripping in flac? only looking for highest audiophile quality possible. Thanks - Richard

...updated since 2001. (In the past I have e-mailed updates to the maintainer, but got no response.) > and how does track vs album gain work (doesn't seem like you could use > both at same > time if i'm at all understanding) You are understanding. From the FAQ: <quote> "Audiophile" Replay Gain adjustment The problem with the "Radio" setting is that tracks which should be quiet will be brought up to the level of all the rest. For casual listening, or in a noisy background, this can be a good thing. For serious listening, it would be a nuisance. You don't w...

...this is why floating point is used. > flac is designed as a consumer audio format. ?it trades ease of editing for a featureful, robust transport layer more suited for playback, and encoding speed for more compression and faster decompression. flac seems more popular at present among high end audiophiles than mere consumers. its very regrettable that it doesn't support floating point natively. many of our users (http://ardour.org/) have asked about using FLAC as an option for recording format, but we have to explain that its not viable because of the lack of floating point support. and yes, th...

...; flac is designed as a consumer audio format. it trades ease of >> editing for a featureful, robust transport layer more suited for >> playback, and encoding speed for more compression and faster >> decompression. > > flac seems more popular at present among high end audiophiles than > mere consumers. its very regrettable that it doesn't support floating > point natively. many of our users (http://ardour.org/) have asked > about using FLAC as an option for recording format, but we have to > explain that its not viable because of the lack of floating point...

...u wrote: > FLAC is lossless. That's what the L stands for. Whatever encoding > options you use, you'll get the same quality. > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:46 -0400, Rick wrote: > > what would be the best string setting for ripping in flac? > > only looking for highest audiophile quality possible. > > > > Thanks - > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > > Flac mailing list > > Flac@xiph.org > > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac Was looking for the string, since I installed, flac....and going to r...

I won't bother quoting all of Moz's statements of how sound is interpreted by those blessed/cursed with tape recorders in their heads :) I will add that his whole explanation of perfect pitch perception easily offers an explanation as to why some individuals will only archive flac/pac/ape (Moz - do you?) and those of us that do not perceive that level of detail and are fine using ogg

...lization" and other such "clean up" of raw/wav files upon extraction, that so many cd audio extractors try to force upon you these days. In fact, I'm having a hard time finding a Windows cdda type tool that I can trust isn't altering the raw/wav file in some way. What do you audiophiles (as it were) recommend? Do you use extractors that normalize/clean up/remove the beginning and end of songs? <p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-r...

...ystem promotes treachery. Though I wonder if they wouldn't self-regulate by requiring EAC .logs or something like that? I think an simple tool that is run on existing FLAC files and gives a clear good/bad answer (perhaps with a probability to remain fair) could spread like wildfire amongst audiophiles if publicized in the right channels. > Thanks, > > J. -Markus-

...gt; flac is designed as a consumer audio format. ?it > > trades ease of editing for a featureful, robust transport > > layer more suited for playback, and encoding speed for more > > compression and faster decompression. > > flac seems more popular at present among high end audiophiles than > mere consumers. its very regrettable that it doesn't support floating > point natively. many of our users (http://ardour.org/) have asked > about using FLAC as an option for recording format, but we have to > explain that its not viable because of the lack of floating point...

Hello Karl In reference to: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/2004-June/007473.html I am also receiving this error with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 device running with the ice1712 ALSA module. I've not quite figured out how to test it with a hw pcm because it isn't accepting any of my formats. I've no idea how ALSA's plug opens it but I've tried all the obvious ones, (2x96000xS24_LE, 2x44100xS16_LE included) but I'...

Can anyone recommend a good high-end sound card to use on a streaming server? Basically all I need are two channels, a good 96 kHz sampling chip, and it needs to run on Linux. -- Jeff Simmons jsimmons@goblin.punk.net Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security "You guys, I don't hear any noise. Are you sure you're

hi flac list! I'm not sure if this question can be asked here, but here you go (it's a question for audiophiles only): I encode CDDA tracks to FLAC and play them on my Pocket PC (PDA). I'm looking for a high quality headphone to connect to my Pocket PC, but it must be an in-ear one but not like these: http://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/vanns/770045336?$medium_item$ So no plastic things must be inserted to...

...ictures/video data? It can bring same computional load as DCT but lower data rates (as MP3 - Vorbis). Did anybody tested arithmetic coding instead of Huffman coding? This can lower data rate (or increase quality). Computional complexity will increase but cannot be so high for Pentium 4. This can be audiophile option when coding. I don't suppose support of this on fixed-point decoders. Spirit

Monkey's Audio lossless compressor (currently win32 only, free but not open-source except decoder) author is thinking to implement a kind of audiophile-quality lossy compression which would filter "noise bits" that are hard to encode lossless but which are (or should be) inaudible and thus improve lossless compression (avg. 300-450kbps). I think that implementing something like this in future OggSquish could be very interesting for peopl...

...ossless. That's what the L stands for. Whatever encoding > > options you use, you'll get the same quality. > > > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:46 -0400, Rick wrote: > >> what would be the best string setting for ripping in flac? > >> only looking for highest audiophile quality possible. > >> > >> Thanks - > >> Richard > > Was looking for the string, since I installed, > flac....and going to rip cd into .flac files, > need the string setting for best quality. > > Richard

...file. Audio files can be played back on the MMI via various drives: two SD card readers, a CD/DVD drive, iPod (MDI), USB, Aux-in, as well as by Bluetooth Streaming and WiFi hotspot. However, I would be happy just being able to play back FLAC files off the SD card reader! I'm a bit of an audiophile and am enjoying the Bang & Olufsen Sound System in my S4. It would be a shame to have two SD card slots on the MMI - each capable of holding up to 32 GB of music! - and only be able to play off them “lossy” audio files. Any thoughts/suggestions that you have would be greatly appreciated....

>> Oh I don't doubt the basics, red book is red book and bits are >> identically replicable and re rippable bits. > > I don't see any problem with taking innovation as far as is practical > and saying "it's finished, no more updates". Sure, basics :) Again, I'm meaning in regard to about bugs, docs, porting and nits. > If I want to do freedb

...process is totally lossless, and supporting it requires minimal work. More info about the exact workings can be found on www.replaygain.org (recommended reading) The support consists of three levels: a) An agreed tag format for storing the ReplayGain data. I hereby propose: RG_RADIO=+0.0 dB RG_AUDIOPHILE=+0.0 dB RG_PEAK=1.000 The exact meaning of these values is described on www.replaygain.org. This format should be self-explanatory otherwhise. Note that the Vorbis version has a human-readable form, in accordance with the fact the they are in the 'comment' field of a Vorbis file. If possi...

Hi, we're a small label in Honolulu, Hawaii, starting up, offering FLAC downloads of live performances of local artists, and we're wondering how is the support for 24-bit FLAC files? Our concern is that would it be too difficult for users to burn 24-bit FLAC recordings to CD? Are there any simple tools that convert 24-bit FLAC to 16-bit FLAC, or burning applications that transparently do