foobar2000 1.1.7 + новые плагины, EAC 1.0b2, TAK 2.2.0a1, MP3Tag 2.49, QAAC 0.47, CUETools 2.1.2a, Sonic Visualizer 1.8, новые статьи и пр.

Здравствуйте. Рад снова приветствовать Вас на моём сайте. Поздравляю всех с началом лета и спешу сообщить, что сайт снова активно обновляется!

Последний блок новостей датирован 23-м апреля, так что сейчас я расскажу, что нового появилось за этот промежуток в более чем два месяца.

Программы

• update: foobar2000 1.1.7 - в последних двух версиях можно отметить новый алгоритм RaplayGain сканера, улучшенную совместимость со сторонними программами в плане тегов (в частности, теперь по умолчанию для MP3 используется ID3v2.3, а не 2.4), улучшенный алгоритм подсчета битрейта, а также поддержку встраивания обложек в аудио файлы.
  1.1.7
  /n*Ability to add/remove embedded pictures in media files - currently supports: MP3, MP4, FLAC, WMA, WavPack, Musepack, Vorbis and APE.
  /n*Improved bitrate reporting accuracy for various audio formats.
  /n*Updated ReplayGain scanning code to the latest version of libebur128.
  /n
  /n1.1.6
  /n*Improved performance when playing very short tracks.
  /n*Improved tag compatibility with other software.
  /n ?Album artist? is mapped to ID3v2 TPE2 like in WMP/iTunes.
  /n Support for iTunes ?itunescompilation? tags, in MP3/ID3v2 and MP4.
  /n ID3v2.3 tags are now written by default since version 2.4 seems to be widely ignored by software vendors.
  /n Added support for multi-value WMA tags.
  /n*Improved reading of MP3 encoding information headers written by alpha versions of LAME.
  /n*ReplayGain scanner now uses libebur128 for improved accuracy.

  Плагины для foobar2000:

  • new: CELT decoder (foo_input_celt.dll) 0.1.2 - очень приятная новость, разработчик foobar2000 создал плагин-декодер нового и очень перспективного lossy формата CELT (файлы *.OGA), который кстати недавно победил в слуховом тесте на ~64 кбит/с. Сам кодек тоже вскоре появится на этом сайте.
  
  
  • new: Mid/Side Stereo Converter (foo_dsp_midside.dll) 0.1 - DSP для преобразования двухканального аудио между режимами Left/Right и Mid/Side стерео (M=(L+R)/2, S=(L-R)/2). Также может выводить Mid (суммарный) или Side (разностный) сигнал на один канал (моно).
  
  
  • new: Dynamic Range Meter (foo_dynamic_range.dll) 1.0.0 - позволяет путем сканирования измерять эффективный динамический диапазон треков.
  
  
  • new: Graphic Equalizer (foo_dsp_xgeq.dll) 0.1.2 - качественный 30-полосный графический эквалайзер с минимальной фазой, автоматической регуляцией усиления и интерполяцией АЧХ. Рекомендуется как замена встроенному в плеер.
  
  
  • new: Resampler DSP (SSRC) (foo_dsp_ssrc.dll) 0.57 (SDK 2011-3-11) - высококачественный но очень медленный DSP ресемплер для foobar2000. Плагин перекомпилирован с использованием нового SDK.
  
  
  • update: SoX Resampler/mod/mod2 (foo_dsp_resampler*.dll) v0.7.0
    Version 0.7.0:
    Bugfix in UI.
    
    Version 0.6.9:
    Bugfix: error in initialization when CPU doesn't have SSE3.
    
    Version 0.6.8:
    Bugfix for new quality modes & multithreading
    
  
  
  • update: Effect DSP (foo_dsp_effect.dll) v0.9.1
    Version 0.8 highlights: Added tempo and pitch modification DSPs.
    Version 0.9 highlights: Added a rate modification DSP. Added finer grained control to the Pitch DSP.
    Version 0.9.1 highlights: Fixed crashes in rate/tempo DSPs.
  
  
  • update: Channel Mixer (foo_channel_mixer.dll) 0.9.6.7
    0.9.6.7 01.06.2011 added: UI improvements on 'Delays' page. Use Up/Down and PageUp/PageDown keys to change delays.
    0.9.6.6 01.08.2010 added: External service to change predefined profiles.
  
  
  • update: DTS decoder (foo_input_dts.dll) 0.3.0
    Version 0.2.9 highlights: Implemented new decode postprocessor service supported by CDDA/WAV/FLAC/WavPack inputs, removed DSP service. This service is only supported by foobar2000 1.1 or newer.
    Version 0.3.0 highlights: Decode postprocessor now supports 48kHz source streams.
  
  
  • update: Discogs Tagger (foo_discogs.dll) 1.29 - для тех, у кого не работают старые версии.
  
  
  • update: TAK Decoder 0.4.4 + TAK Decoding Library 2.2.0 Alpha 1 (foo_input_tak.dll + tak_deco_lib.dll)
  
  


• update: Exact Audio Copy v1.0 beta 2
  May 24, 2011
  
  I have worked very hard the last 6 month to present you an updated version of EAC, and here it finally comes. It fixes many problems (e.g. saving WAVs in the audio editor and WMA compression should be working again), but also brings you a renewed user interface and an improved metadata editing. One thing I am especially proud of is the autocomplete for the artist and for the composer field. New tag fields like lyrics are also included. The replacers (like %s) are exchanged against some more meaningfull replacers (like %source%). A list for the compression command line replacers can be found in the FAQ. A new professional metadata provider plugin from Get Digital Data is also added, which provides automatically cover images and more metadata information. You can test 10 lookups before purchasing a lifetime license for only $7.99 if you like it. Of course the old freedb plugin can still be used and now includes basic lyrics support. I still plan to open the freedb plugin as open source, so that the community can extend and correct that plugin – or even create new ones for other metadata services. New is also support for a different kind of plugin, which is able to analyse the extraction data and process it somehow, a new plugin for that will emerge soon… Have fun!


• update: CUETools 2.1.2a
  2.1.2:
  *2.1.2a: hotfix for bug in metadata editor which was ignoring edits
  *2.1.2a: hotfix for batchlog reporting discs with silent tracks as inaccurate
  *AccurateRip v2 support (without cross-pressing verification)
  *EAC CTDB plugin
  *CTDB now supports musicbrainz Next Generation Schema (NGS) metadata. Old musicbrainz library removed. New musicbrainz NGS metadata can now be used in filename templates, including %discname%, %label%, %releasedate%, %country%, %releasedateandlabel%, %discnumberandname%
  *CTDB submissions are now based on the same data that was used when verifying, so 'submit' script was removed, and data is submitted after verification, after showing confirmation dialog
  *CTDB verification is now much faster
  *Local DB: option to purge records
  *Local DB: now shown in the same window as folder browser
  *metadata editing window size is now saved in settings
  *CUERipper now sends CD barcode and rip quality when submitting
  *support for wierd CDs with two data tracks before audio


• update: OggEnc v2.87 LancerMod based on aoTuV b6.03 - очень рекомендую этот кодер OGG Vorbis. Последние разработки Aoyumi + оптимизация под современные процессоры. Как результат - высокое качество и скорость, соответственно.
  aoTuV Beta6.03 [beta6.02 >> beta6.03] (2011/04/25) latest beta version
  # The problem that encoding of 5.1 channel source didn't work was revised.
  
  aoTuV Beta6.02 [beta6.01 >> beta6.02] (2011/02/27)
  # In the specific pattern (different from beta6.01), the bug that caused overflow was fixed.
  
  aoTuV Beta6.01 [beta6 >> beta6.01] (2011/02/23)
  # In the specific pattern, the bug that caused overflow was fixed.


• update: TAK 2.2.0 Alpha 1 - первая альфа новой версии лучшего по соотношению скорость/сжатие lossless кодека. Главным нововведением является поддержка многоканального аудио (пока до 6 каналов).
  V2.2.0 Alpha / 10-06-06
  
  This release brings support for multi-channel audio and speed optimizations for encoder and decoder.
  
  New features:
  
  - Support for multi-channel audio. While the stream format supports up to 16 channels, the codec currently is restricted to a maximum of 6 channels.
  - Support for the "Wave Format Extensible" file format.
  
  Improvements:
  
  - Encoding speed improvements of up to 10 percent for my primary file set. Most of it is achieved by a modification of the algorithm which selects the optimal predictor order for each subframe. It will now often use less predictors than before, what may on average result in about 0.01 percent worse compression. You will only notice an speed advantage, if your files benefit from high predictor orders.
  - Decoding speed improvements of up to 18 percent for my primary file set. Some of it is attributed to the above-noted modification of the encoder's predictor order selection algorithm. Therefore it will only take effect when decoding files encoded with this version and only, if they benefit from high predictor orders. Additionally SSSE3-instructions can be used for predictor counts of 32 and more. This affects the presets p3, p4 and sometimes p2, but only, if a particular file benefits from high predictor orders.
  
  Known issues:
  
  - If you use pipe decoding and the application reading the pipe is beeing terminated before the whole file has been read, TAKC may get into an endless loop and has to be manually killed with the task manager. I don't think this is a big issue but i will try to fix it in one of the next versions. BTW: Big thanks to shnutils for testing the pipe decoding!
  - There seem to be some compatibility issues with pipe decoding to some other applications ("crc1632.exe" has been reported). I will try to fix it in the next release.


• update: QAAC (QuickTime AAC/ALAC Encoder) v0.47
  release 0.47
  
  Finally fixed to properly handle resampling filter latency of libspeexdsp. It's a bit of pain, as libspeexdsp seems to lack well-defined way of signaling end of input... Thanks to lvqcl, who helped me out about this.
  
  In the new achive, libspeexdsp_vc10.dll is included. Somehow, the official dll doesn't export functions named speex_resampler_get_{input|output}_latency(), which provide latency informations produced by the filters. On the other hand, this custom built one in the archive exports them (just added their name to def file, and compiled).
  
  Therefore, I recommend you to use libspeexdsp_vc10.dll in the archive. However, if you want, the official one still works. qaac v0.47 searches libspeexdsp_vc10.dll first, and if it doesn't exist, just fallback to the official libspeexdsp.dll.
  
  When running with official dll, qaac uses "guess" approach to obtain latency, instead of calling speex_resampler_get_input_latency() function. Therefore, output length of two approaches might slightly differ by one or few samples. It's resampled from the original anyway, and I don't think this difference is important, nor audible.
  
  
  release 0.46
  
  Fixed the bug addressed in the previous post (zero samples were needlessly appended at the beginning with the new resampler, which caused slight delay..)
  
  Better handling of temporary files used in the resampler code. Modified to directly call CreateFileW() with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY, FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flags. With this modification, they will be removed even when qaac was killed or something.
  
  Temporary files are also used for the MP4 box optimization purpose, but this remains unchanged, therefore has probability to leave garbage tempfile remained in the encoding target directory.
  
  
  release 0.45
  Added libspeexdsp resampler. To activate this, download win32 binary from http://www.speex.org/downloads/, and place libspeexdsp.dll (not libspeex.dll) to the same directory with qaac.
  
  Also added mp4v2 project.h to github repos, which was long missing... If you have experienced build issue or difficulty, please let me know.
  
  
  release 0.44
  Fixed to write more proper value to sample description(stsd) box for ALAC encoding.
  samplesize property now reflects audio's bit depth (16 or 24).
  samplerate property is a 16bit integer value, therefore not large enough to hold real sample rate greater than 65535. qaac has been setting least significant bits there (by just letting it overflow), and now set most significant bits. That is, for 96k sample, previously 30464 (= 0xffff & 96000) was set, and now 48000 is set. (iTunes seems to always set 44100 for ALAC, so I believe nobody refers this property anyway...).
  
  
  release 0.43
  
  Re-enabled FLAC metadata reading.
  
  This is degradation at release 0.40; The official libsndfile-1.dll is FLAC enabled, therefore qaac was reading FLAC files with not libFLAC.dll but libsndfile-1.dll since release 0.40, when both DLLs are installed.


• update: Mp3Tag 2.49
  ------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [2011-06-01] REL: VERSION 2.49 (for Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7)
  ------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [2011-05-18] NEW: added new field UserAgent for web sources which enables sending Mp3tag/#.## as
  user agent if set to 1.
  [2011-05-19] CHG: updated MusicBrainz web source.
  [2011-05-15] NEW: added %rate% for MP4 file
  [2011-05-15] NEW: added %keywords% for MP4 files.
  [2011-05-15] NEW: added support for preserving unknown MP4 atoms when writing tags.
  [2011-05-04] NEW: added cover-specific %_cover_type% at action Export cover to file.
  [2011-05-04] FIX: action Export cover to file duplicated file extension for multiple covers.
  [2011-04-18] NEW: support for inbuilt parameters MP3TAGAPP and MP3TAGAPPDATA for $getEnv.
  [2011-04-18] CHG: replaced discogs web source by web source based on discogs web service.
  [2011-04-07] CHG: updated discogs web source.
  [2011-04-03] NEW: added support for wildcards in format string of action Import cover from file.
  [2011-04-03] NEW: added support for wildcards in format string of action Import text file.
  [2011-04-03] NEW: added %rating winamp% for MP3 files.
  [2011-03-26] FIX: possible runtime error when creating new actions.
  [2011-03-25] NEW: added %itunesaccount% and %itunespurchasedate% for MP4 files.
  [2011-03-22] FIX: $rand was only seeded once per session.
  [2011-03-22] FIX: $ifLonger did not work as documented.
  [2011-03-21] NEW: added %_video_height%, %_video_width%, and %_video_bitrate% for MP4 video files.
  [2011-03-21] NEW: scripting function $getEnv.
  [2011-03-21] NEW: support for Unicode encoded web sources scripts.
  [2011-03-21] FIX: runtime error at converter preview with empty format string.
  [2011-03-20] CHG: removed action type 'Shorten filenames to 64 characters'.


• update: Sonic Visualizer 1.8
  What's new in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.2:
  ? The time-value layer now has an origin line and an option to
  ? show derivatives (change from one point to the next) rather than
  ? raw values
  ? A static initialiser race has been fixed, possibly fixing an
  ? occasional crash on startup in Windows
  ? A crash when pressing Play straight after New Session has been
  ? fixed


• update: foobar2000 by Audiophile 1.1.6 (сборка) - обновление моей сборки foobar2000. К сожалению, уже успело устареть. Возможно, вскоре выпущу сборку на основе 1.1.7.


• update: Opera 11.11 Russian


• update: Realtek HD Audio Codec Drivers R2.62


• update: QIP 2010 build 5488

Статьи

• new: FAQ по звуковым компакт-дискам (CD-DA) - очень познавательная статья про Audio CD (стандарт Red Book).


• new: Кодирование аудио с потерями: рекомендации по выбору кодера и параметров - моя статья с Хабрахабра. Итог трехлетних изысканий.


• new: Как вернуть качественный звук в Windows 7 — побитовый вывод, аппаратные эффекты - еще одна моя статья, оттуда же. Рекомендую ознакомиться.


• update: foobar2000 и Last.fm [playcount sync 29.04.2011] - обновлен скрипт.

И еще

• На страницу LAME + настройка добавлена версия LAME 3.99 beta 0.


• На HydrogenAudio.org готовится новый слуховой тест. Даже два. Первый определит победителя среди кодеров AAC, второй тест - мультиформатный (в нем AAC будет представлять кодер, победивший в предыдущем тесте). Битрейт на этот раз - 96 кбит/с.


• Близится к релизу новая долгожданная версия lossyWav 1.3.0 - по словам разработчика осталось лишь немного "отполировать" код.

Ну вот, вроде отстрелялся. Ждите в этом месяце еще обновления - новые статьи и материалы. Удачи.