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MusicBee Wishlist / treat .dsf as lossless

« on: November 26, 2021, 04:22:19 PM »

My car stereo only handles a handful of formats, including MP3 and WMA (including WMA lossless), but excluding FLAC. So when synching my car pendrive I convert files to WMA lossless. However, since I do not want to convert MP3 to WMA lossless, I pick "only convert files with a lossless format". My problem is, that this way DSF is handled as lossy, so it is copied to the pendrive without conversion, so of course the car stereo cannot handle it. It would be better if DSF was treated as lossless in this regard and be converted.
thanks a lot.

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MusicBee Wishlist / folder.jpg resize

« on: October 14, 2021, 11:56:14 AM »

Hello there,
MB already has an option to resize folder.jpg when syncing to an external device. However afaik there is no such setting for the library itself. I usually store the cover in cover.jpg with the highest resolution possible, but to duplicate it to folder.jpg seems like a waste of resources. I wish there would be an option when storing album art to save cover.jpg to folder.jpg too but in a smaller version, just like when syncing to external device.
Thank you.

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Bug Reports / Re: Converting 24 bit wav file to flac changed it into 16 bit

« on: July 30, 2020, 10:14:42 PM »

This is a case in point of why the best bet is always to use the Installer or Portable versions of MusicBee.  The Store version is incapable of being patched manually, among other issues (use of certain plugins, etc), due to the lock-down Microsoft places on these things  The fix does indeed work for MB 3.4.x on the 24-bit example I previously described, as so for Bee-liever.

Off-topic: Well, this was the first issue I encountered, so I am not sure how often a quick patching for testing purposes is needed, but there can be a Beta/Test/Patched/Release Candidate version in the store besides the stable version, can't it? This can replace manual tinkering, as the patched version would update itself in the background as well, independent of the stable production version. This is just me thinking out loud, without knowing anything about how the ecosystem of the Windows Store works, and also going waaaay off-topic

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Bug Reports / Re: Converting 24 bit wav file to flac changed it into 16 bit

« on: July 30, 2020, 09:05:46 PM »

Unfortunately I could not try it. I am running the store version and simply could not get permission to replace the files. I googled and googled, used icacls, tinkered around with all the permissions windows I could find, took ownership of the folder, none seems to work and after an hour and some reboots I gave up. So unless someone can help me how to get write access to the folder, I unfortunately am not able to test the patched version.

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Bug Reports / Re: Converting 24 bit wav file to flac changed it into 16 bit

« on: July 29, 2020, 08:34:59 PM »

I did some testing as well.

original wav file (for reference it was downloaded from here: https://www.nilsfrahm.com/works/sol/ )
Size 33,84 MB  (0% Compressed)
Original Size 33,84 MB
Length 1 minute 1 second
Channels 2  (stereo)
Sample Rate 96 KHz;
Sample Size 24 bit
Bit Rate 4 608 kbps  (DVD)
Encoder
Encoder Settings PCM
Audio Quality DVD  (Lossless)
Contains ID Tag [list & ID3]
Channel Mapping Left, Right
Type WAV Audio File    [.wav]

converting in a command line "flac -s -8 -o d:\test.flac d:\test.wav" gives two warnings:
test.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown chunk 'JUNK' (use --keep-foreign-metadata to keep)
test.wav: WARNING: legacy WAVE file has format type 1 but bits-per-sample=24

however, it still completes the conversion and results in this:
Size 19,47 MB  (43% Compressed)
Original Size 33,84 MB
Length 1 minute 1 second
Channels 2  (stereo)
Sample Rate 96 KHz;
Sample Size 24 bit
Bit Rate 4 608 kbps  (DVD)
Encoder FLAC reference libFLAC 1.3.2 20170101
Encoder Settings
Audio Quality Perfect (Lossless)
Contains CRC
Channel Mapping
Type FLAC Audio File    [.flac]

Converting in musicbee results in this:
Size 8,26 MB  (64% Compressed)
Original Size 22,56 MB
Length 1 minute 1 second
Channels 2  (stereo)
Sample Rate 96 KHz;
Sample Size 16 bit
Bit Rate 3 072 kbps  (DVD)
Encoder FLAC reference libFLAC 1.3.2 20170101
Encoder Settings
Audio Quality Perfect (Lossless)
Contains CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
Channel Mapping
Type FLAC Audio File    [.flac]

What I note here without deep (as a matter of fact - any) knowledge on the subject is that if the file was being converted with musicbee, 'file properties' reports the original file size incorrectly (22,56 MB versus the real 33,84 MB which is exactly the ratio of 16:24)[/list]

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Bug Reports / Re: Converting 24 bit wav file to flac changed it into 16 bit

« on: July 28, 2020, 08:05:38 PM »

Hi!
I am using 3.3.7491 Store version and have encountered the same issue as the OP. Converting a 96/24 wav gave a 96/16 flac result. I did not find a way to fix this. I would appreciate any help.