Posts made by Ton

How to play cue-files?

Answer from taglib,
Hi Ton,

As far as I know, DSDIFF/DSF was never part of an official TagLib release.

It was merged into master (2018-10-27, d71398c9), but it was later
removed (2019-09-12, 074f30e3) with the commit message

Remove DSF and DSDIFF from master to a feature branch

These can be merged back into master once they're in a more mature state.

@Scott: Can you tell us what exactly were the problems which led to
this removal?

The code still exists in the taglib2 branch. It is not difficult to
include support for a new tag format in a project which is using
TagLib, that code does not have to be part of TagLib, so the
Strawberry Musicplayer could add DSF support to its source code. I did
this myself for https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kid3/, but I used
another implementation from https://github.com/pekingduck/metadsf
(2015-03-11, 18687eb2), and I had to add a few fixes based on bug
reports from users, so an alternative to the stuff in the taglib2
branch could be the src/plugins/taglibmetadata/taglibext/dsf folder in
the Kid3 sources.

Jonas, was this helpful?

Jonas, I did send them this message. "Hello, suddenly my Strawberry Musicplayer can't read DSDIFF/DSF files.
Strawberry tells me taglib doesn't support it anymore.
Can you please make it work again?"

Hi Jonas, you haven't heard from me for a long time. Because I was very satisfied. But now that I can indeed not play my dsd files anymore….that is terrible. What can I, we do, to get it working again?

Thank you Jonas for your clear answer. I will not touch the low watermark settings. It all works fine. I am interested in the best possible adjustment of Strawberry for the best possible sound reproduction. Another general question about that. Does a low-latency kernel contribute to better sound reproduction for music players? Or is it only important for music studio production? I read that you have back pain. Hopefully you will be better and you will have less pain and can sleep!

@jonas Thanks for: Removed use of deprecated gstreamer "low-percent" (Minimum buffer fill setting) and Added buffer low and high watermark settings to backend settings.
But how do I know the best settings for my desktop? Is that the installation setting that comes with the hardware or is that an average? I am using Ubuntu Studio.

@Ton Answer my own question about low latency. It was difficult to find because most of the internet is about recording. Not about playback.

I liked this explanation. https://medium.com/@juliozynger/your-app-and-low-laatcy-audio-output-d21d7b672305 and this one https://juce.com/ I will get there step by step. I think.

A little late, but thanks for your answer about fading. That is obvious. So no resampling. New question about Low Latency kernel Ubuntu Studio in which I am using Strawberry now. Is this kernel only for recording or also useful in audio playback? What is the best setting for the buffer? Thanks.

Dear Jonas, first of all thank you very much for this fantastic music player. Question, I can't get fading to work. Could it be my USB DAC? Regards.