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Title: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Aleks.TS on May 01, 2013, 12:10:20 PM
Update lossyWAV to v1.3.0.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: greenday1987 on May 01, 2013, 03:36:04 PM
Forgive my ignorance but afaik WAV is an inferior alternative to FLAC since it's uncompressed but offers nothing that FLAC doesn't. Is this anything like the same except for mp3?
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Antonski on May 01, 2013, 06:24:37 PM
LossyWav can be used as a preprocessor when transcoding from wav to flac, wavpack or tac. It doesn't make the wav file smaller, just changes the least significant bit in a way that makes the wav file more compressible by some lossless codecs, keeping the transparancy (in most cases).
Anyway, it is 'lossy', because the result is not bit by bit equal to original wav file.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Steven on May 01, 2013, 06:27:57 PM
has the 1.3 final been released? i can only see the beta on hydrogenaudio.org
i will include it when it is final but there is nothing stopping anyone using the latest version and overwritting the one in the musicbee folder
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: ma_t14 on May 01, 2013, 08:51:56 PM
It seems like it has been released:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=90104
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LossyWAV
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Aleks.TS on May 01, 2013, 09:14:53 PM
... but there is nothing stopping anyone using the latest version and overwritting the one in the musicbee folder


Error - Unable to temporary WAV file (error=BASS_ERROR_FILEOPEN)
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Steven on May 01, 2013, 09:37:59 PM
the new version requires new parameters. You can set them in the File Converter preferences
instead of:
"--portable" use "--quality P"
"--extreme" use "--quality E"

Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Aleks.TS on May 02, 2013, 05:28:22 AM
the new version requires new parameters. You can set them in the File Converter preferences
instead of:
"--portable" use "--quality P"
"--extreme" use "--quality E"


Thank you. Works!
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: johnnyboy on May 05, 2013, 09:18:47 PM
Doesn't work for me. Could someone please give me the settings for lossywav in the convertor parameters for ALAC.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: VX on May 07, 2013, 08:02:50 AM
Doesn't work for me. Could someone please give me the settings for lossywav in the convertor parameters for ALAC.

Quality presets for lossyWAV 1.3
(Safe to use, should be updated accordingly in MB File Converter preferences when new lossyWAV version is included into MB 2.1 package):
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LossyWAV

About ALAC encoding parameters (FWIW):
http://foobar-users.de/index.php?topic=1884.msg11377#msg11377
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: VX on June 04, 2013, 07:33:48 AM
Doesn't work for me. Could someone please give me the settings for lossywav in the convertor parameters for ALAC.

Quality presets for lossyWAV 1.3
(Safe to use, should be updated accordingly in MB File Converter preferences when new lossyWAV version is included into MB 2.1 package):
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LossyWAV


I think it is worth updating lossyWAV to the latest version available before the final release.
Other external components could be updated as well.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: VX on June 16, 2013, 06:27:47 PM
Doesn't work for me. Could someone please give me the settings for lossywav in the convertor parameters for ALAC.

Quality presets for lossyWAV 1.3
(Safe to use, should be updated accordingly in MB File Converter preferences when new lossyWAV version is included into MB 2.1 package):
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LossyWAV


I think it is worth updating lossyWAV to the latest version available before the final release.
Other external components could be updated as well.

Steven, what is your opinion about this  ???
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: Steven on June 16, 2013, 06:31:53 PM
i would rather not at this point because they changed the command line parameters and i think it will just lead to confusion and problems for existing users.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: VX on June 16, 2013, 08:56:44 PM
Thanks for the info  :)

I understand and don't use it personally, but bumped this topic just to make sure you haven't forgotten about this.
Title: Re: lossyWAV 1.3
Post by: VX on June 24, 2013, 09:21:58 PM
Was this updated for MB 2.1 final  ???