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This question is mainly directed at John Edwards, I believe. I'm attempting to use oggdec.exe in a batch conversion 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

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

Dat Head <dathead2 at gmail.com> wrote: > can somebody explain replaygain a bit - is it kinda like normalization > but w/o modifying > the files (just giving software a number to use to obtain the level > boost needed?) Try http://www.replaygain.org/ although the pages haven't been updated since 2001. (In the past I have e-mailed updates to the maintainer, but got no

...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, tha...

...; 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 &...

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 8:53:43 pm you 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 -

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-re...

...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,

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...

I did composition of butterfly8 and butterfly16 and I found, that these functions are well decomposed - decomposition doesn't lower computional speed. On the other hand the same can be done with butterfly8 - decomposition to butterfly4 (further decomposition is not possible) but there's no reason to do this. I think little improvement can be done by inlining them. Compiler and processor

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

hmm, let me ask this question, another way... which setting offer the least compression ?. Richard On Thursday 12 July 2007 3:49:07 am Brian Willoughby wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Alex already told you: All settings for FLAC give perfect quality. > No setting has any more quality than the other, because they are all > identical to the original CD. > > Brian Willoughby > Sound

Hello, I am hoping that perhaps you know the answer to my car audio question, or can at least point me in the right direction. I own a 2013 Audi S4 that has the 3G-Plus Multi Media Interface (MMI) with the Bang & Olufsen Sound System. The MMI is able to playback lossy, compressed audio files (MP3, WMA and AAC), but does not have native support for FLAC, ALAC, or WMA Lossless.

>> 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

Hi all, I have implemented ReplayGain support for Vorbis. If you are not familiar with it, it is basically a method of making sure all your files have equal loudness, remove the need for normalization and prevent clipping during playback. The process is totally lossless, and supporting it requires minimal work. More info about the exact workings can be found on www.replaygain.org (recommended

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