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[quote author=”JesseG”] I’m probably one of the most diabolically obtusely opinionated people you’ll ever meet, when it comes to dynamics. [/quote]
I thought I was the only one !!! 😯
As a drummer, I know how dynamics is important ant totaly agree with you !
My poor english push me into language shortcuts, I’ m sorry…The main idea is to insert BBP as a VST plungin in my favorite audio editor to check "how it’ll sound on the radio" ! 😉
[quote author=”TRININIT”]The main idea is to insert BBP as a VST plungin in my favorite audio editor to check "how it’ll sound on the radio" ! 😉[/quote]
A valid idea. I think there’s a lot of people using Breakaway System and Breakaway Live to do this… routing the mixed audio through Breakaway. But just because a track sounds good on Breakaway doesn’t mean it’ll sound good on the radio in general…
at least not until Breakaway takes over the world.
Holy cow! On an Intel dual core laptop w/1 gig ram, cpu usage went from 80% to 40%.
Does this put it into the territory where it may run on an older 2.4ghz Athlon w/1.5 gig ram? Major cheers!
Nice result, Sgeirk! 😀
Regarding Athlon, I don’t know. I don’t have one, but from experience I know that it performs a lot worse on AMDs due to my heavy use of Intel’s Performance Primitives library (for FFT algorithms for example), and they’re more optimized for Intel than for AMD chips, due to.. uh.. marketing reasons. 😉
But, if you happen to have an older 2.4 GHz Athlon with 1.5gb ram (i would guess that you do), please do try it!
If nothing else, I would think it’d run OK in cpu optimized mode!
///Leif
[quote author=”JesseG”][quote author=”sebastien.wittebolle”]JesseG => you can try this server http://radiopop.relay-network.com:8012/listen.pls 😉[/quote]
Get this lame
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jfe1205/LA … 3.90.3.zip
replace the lame_enc.dll EdCast is using now.
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Out of interest JesseG, any particular reason why 3.90.3?The dietary restriction on CPU usage has really helped. I can now pull audio off my wireless network in my house, which simply was not possible with earlier versions. My dual core dell laptop also used to have problems even pulling audio from a usb external drive. (wouldn’t you know I only deal with linear wav files?)
I’m also using a USB external card, which might have been part of the issue.
Previous versions of BB would glitch minorly or majorly, depending…BB used to prefer only dealing with audio off the internal HD.
But, not NOW!
Best $200, I think…I’ve ever spent.
[quote author=”lpy”]Out of interest JesseG, any particular reason why 3.90.3?[/quote]
Because after a lot of extensive testing even using recent "fixes" for CBR (ala v3.98b) I still think that v3.90.3 is the best for streaming in the 96kbps to 192kbps range. It may also be as well for under 96kbps, but I could care less. 😛There was one other preset that was close, and it was v3.98b with preset 5. The tonality and pureness of notes/pitches seemed to be slightly more accurate. I was telling Leif that I even found one harmonic of a chord that was completely missing in preset 12 that preset 5 "nailed" on all of the versions of Lame that I recently tested. But preset 12 seems to have the best accuracy in the treble areas with transients and airy/spacey very hard to encode stuff, it performs flawlessly with. And most listeners (read: most people’s gear) are much more likely to hear artifacts happening there, than a slight loss in the quality of the tonality of the codec. Preset 12 is still really close, and I do have to consider that I’m listening on high-end mastering-grade gear. 🙂
And so that’s why I recommended preset 12, and Lame 3.90.3. Lots & lots of testing.
3.90.3 is a custom version of Lame 3.93 which was done by Dibrom and John33, two of the several main guys behind the Lame project. It has a number of tweaks which can not be accomplished using any configuration string or dll interface. For CBR I have yet to hear better. And even for lower-kbps VBR it does a VERY good job at keeping the quality up and the rates low. Around the 160kbps VBR area, it just dominates all of the other codecs I have tested.
Also, I always do my testing of stuff like this as blind ABX, unless the difference is totally apparent. To make sure that I’m not a victim of my own bias.
😆Jesse- thanks; I had never heard of that custom version of LAME.
Those presets you mentioned (preset 12 and preset 5), I can’t see those anywhere. The presets seem to have names like sw, fm, radio, tape, hifi, cd, studio.
Can you tell where to find the preset 12 and preset 5? Thanks again.
They are presets in the configuration of EdCast, not Lame presets or alt-presets. 😉 I described where this would get added to the EdCast config a few posts upwards. 8)
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