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In Reply to: RE: Not a valid test. posted by edward on June 02, 2007 at 01:07:52
I think you are confused about the ABX test feature in Foobar2000. It does not convert both files to WAV; that would go against everything this test code was designed for in the first place!The idea that FLAC decoding consumes so many resources that it makes your computer stutter leads me to conclude that you have a seriously messed up computer, or some kind of audio configuration that is FUBAR. I base this on the fact that I can listen to FLAC files without any problem whatsoever while playing games like World of Warcraft (which consumes more CPU resources than 50 Foobar2000s playing FLAC files, by the way).
Finally, the whole point of the test in the first place is to remove the "opinion" about whether one lossless music format sounds better than the other with actual facts. I understand that those who have heavily voiced an opinion in the past here that is now disputed by the facts may be hesitant to post their results here...but we really can't make any progress on our mutual quest to make music coming from a computer sound as good as it can unless everyone is ready to stop sharing their opinions and start sharing some unbiased listening test results.
Edits: 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07 06/02/07Follow Ups:
As far as I know, all Flac plugins in all the music players use essentially the same source (from the FLAC developers kit) and all convert the Flac to Wav before playing it. So you are always hearing a Wav file.
Hey Scrith,
Ed may be running programs or plugins that do consume a ton of resources, like upsamplers, crossovers, and room correction, that combined, could be very taxing on a system and cause stutters in some cases.
I for one found it very difficult to run both crossovers and upsamplers (forget about secret rabbit) at the same time on my dedicated 1ghz machine.
Ah, that could be true. But his post lead me to believe that it was the difference in CPU resources between WAV and FLAC decoding, which are so small as to be almost non-existent (e.g. I get less than 1% CPU usage when playing FLAC files in Foobar2000).
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