Posts made by poppop

@poppop Very loosely adapted -- in the digital domain, it's applying heuristic algorithms to the data of a track, presumably spectral content, duration, that sort of stuff, that can then be compared to a central database of this information. Your player theoretically can identify a song you are playing, and big brother can track what songs you are playing, perhaps?

It's a concept borrowed from vinyl phonograph records. If you get fingerprints all over your favorite song, it will leave oils that will attract additional contaminants over time. This can cause issues with your stylus and cartridge where tracking is no longer perfect, causing distortion.

@poppop LOL - I kept typing vsn 3.0 of Strawberry. You are probably wondering how I got such an advance copy! I had "3.0" on my mind because of the new Blender major release this weekend, haha. I meant to type Strawberry 1.0, needless to say.

Thanks!

Hi - I have Strawberry 3.0 installed on FreeBSD machine with a USB sound card that supports 96/24 rate. I have been digitizing my vinyl collection into 96/24 flacs for the past several years. For older records that are mono, I create a mono flac file to preserve disc space.

When I play such files it sounds like the Chipmunks -- the sound is playing like a 3.25 ips reel recording set at 7.5 ips for playback. I.e. the sound is shifted up one octave and playing twice normal speed tempo wise. I presume pairs of mono samples are getting sent to the DAC as a Left and Right sample for a given time slice. For native stereo 96/24 flac files, the problem doesn't manifest.

The identical mono flac files do not manifest this problem on my linux (arch/straight alsa) machines running Strawberry 3.0. It also doesn't happen with slower sample rate mono files in BSD/OSS.

Tonight I figured out the workaround of turning on the settings option of "Upmix / Downmix to 2 channels". So my files now play correctly -- just thought you might be interested to know of a potential OSS bug.

Thanks!

• Michael

@jonas Tonight I have installed Version 1.0.0-11-gb1f70982 and I am happy to report that despite having volume control disabled, for my 96kbps / L24E flac file, the analyzer is analyzing away!

PS dig my crazy color scheme -- it clashes with everything else visually but I think it fits Strawberry motif to a T!

@twist I second your words! I am brand-new to Strawberry, a reformed Clementine survivor, and Strawberry was already audio app #1 in my book these past several days. Now it is officially version #1 too, hurrah!

@poppop

Further update and I will stop beatin' this poor dead horse:

Turns out the S'berry analyzer does work for me with 44.1 rips of CDs, but not on my flac files w sampling rate of 96kHz. (Clementine does OK with same.)

I will start coding my oscilloscope analyzer meantime

@poppop FYI - running Strawberry in Plasma on same machine had no impact on analyzer bug. Also, FWIW using Clementine to playing the same file has a working analyzer.

@jonas Thanks for the prompt response! PS I hope you saw my fanboy comment in that thread of your forum. I love Strawberry!

I try to standardize the flacs in my collection.
The stuff I rip from vinyl I do at 96/S24LE. The CD rips I aim for 44/S16LE.

I would add this morning I uninstalled and reinstalled from AUR the git version because I wanted your new feature to turn off the even/odd row zebra stripes which became a tired visual metaphor in about 2003 I think haha. (That plus removing the crazy "delete file" from the context menu are alone worth their weight in gold as clementine improvements.) The new version doesn't seem to be making any difference for the analyzer. I would add, when I enable the block analyzer for example, the little half-second animation at start up occurs but then it goes dormant.

I am running typically in DWM window manager and no fat desktop environment on this machine, and sometimes there are weird little theme-related artifacts for some software. I will start up in plasma and report back soon if that makes a difference.

Thanks!

• Michael

• edit to show S24LE and S16LE. I have always been an integer man myself and don't trust floating point numbers

Add waveform / o-scope display option in analyzer

I never knew why Clementine didn't include this, since VLC has had it for years.

I have spent a lot of time ripping / remastering my vinyl collection into hi-res flacs and have come to enjoy the look of a good waveform along the way. Spectrograms and the like are boring. Maybe I was a sound engineer in a past life, I dunno...

It doesn't have to be scientific instrument accuracy -- just a reasonable facsimile of what is being played.

Could this be done in a way with minimal performance impact?

PS I am a long-time Clementine user and brand-new to Strawberry. I just installed it from the AUR on an Arch machine. The existing analyzer items don't seem to be working for me at all, anyway while playing FLAC files from CD or my hi-res rips.

Thanks,

• Michael

Re: Thank you!

Jonas et al

Thanks so much for reforming Clementine haha. I have been using it for about five years as the closest approximation to what I want my music player to be. Lately it has become quite problematic and I was looking to jump ship, or write my own player from scratch. That led me to a google search for "linux music players" and trying out strawberry on my main arch box.

You have dotted all the I's, crossed all the T's, and checked just about every box on my list! So far, the music has played flawlessly which is what it's all about, isn't it?

How was I unaware of this awesome clementine fork all this time?

Best regards

• Michael, USA