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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
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To add file format independent SBE indication to your playlist, append the following code to your playlist formatting string (Preferences -> Display -> Title formatting, Playlist tab): $ifgreater($mod(%_length_samples%,588),0,$rgb(180,90,90,180,90,90)$num($mod(%_length_samples%,588),3 ),) The result looks kinda like this: Tracks with a red number after the playing time have an SBE. For example, in the screenshot above, only the Stolen Ogre tracks have SBEs. note the nifty PacMan progress bar No members have liked this post.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
I just converted some SHNS to FLAC. The SHN file was 740MB, the resultant FLAC file was only 344MB--Everything bit compared okay, but when I converted the flac files to wav one track failed the md5 check. I converted the shn of the same track to wav and that one was okay. The two wavs aren't quite the same size: The one from the flac file is 60,153KB, the one from the SHN (which was okay) is 60,154KB
i have no idea why that is Jim No members have liked this post.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
99/100 times this is caused by addition data being embedded into the header of the .wav file. FLAC ignores and throws away non-audio data, so this header would dissappear during a WAV > FLAC > WAV transition. SHN does not trash this data, so the audio fingerprints will match even though the expanded .wav file is not identical to the one that created the initial shns.
You can run an shntool -len check on the .shn files, and it will tell if you there is additional data in the header, confirming this suspicion.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
I just looked at the shntool results that came with the shn file. Here's what it says for the track in question:
length 5:49.14 expanded size 61596688 cd --- WAVE -e problems ---xx filename bd1980-01-21d1t08.shn What does "e" mean under "wave"? Jim No members have liked this post.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Thanks! Boy am I a pinhead--I just found it in the tutorial--which I hadn't started reading yet. I haven't used shntool (I just got it).
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
I can relate actually.. shntool's documentation structure isn't clean, I would've expected this kind of information either in the parameter-specific help of the exe itself or in the readme, but not just buried in some (ok, "the") tutorial.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
By the way, when the FLAC is around half of the SHN, as in this case, that is the result of the audio being mono. For truly mono material, it is not uncommon to get this enormous improvement of the compression ratio .
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
I got this, but where did you generate that output? Or have you created a whole ton of different interfaces to your foobar screen? I'd be interested in more code and how you did that. The programming part is a foreign language to me, so I'd be just copying and pasting.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Thank you!
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Hi,
sorry to be posting to what might be a dead thread, but i hope somebody is still around to answer... i've just got foobar2000 and am not very experienced with it. i'm trying to follow this tutorial on how to convert SHN to FLAC. i've got foobar2000 v0.8.3 special and installed. Now, i go to <preferences> <diskwriter> and click <add new> but i don't get all the different options that i see on the screenshot from Five. All i have are Legacy 0.7 output support WAV (PCM 32bit floating point) WAV (PCM, fixed-point) What have i forgotten to do?
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Okay, try uninstalling and reinstall. Pay special attention at the beginning when it asks you "select the type of install". The default is "normal", so make sure you select "full" from the dropdown menu before pushing "next".
http://img57.exs.cx/img57/9166/fooba...stallation.gif Then the extra options should be available when you push "add new". hope this helps
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Five,
Thanks, that did the trick.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
a thread is never dead so long as there's something on-topic to add.
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Re: Foobar2000 SHN > FLAC Conversion: A Visual Guide
Yes, basically what happened is that you may have unselected the proper plugin during install (forget which one though ) that gives you a wide range of encoding options. By reinstalling with that plugin included, you should be good to go!
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