TAudioConverter 0.9.7-Multithreaded Audio Converter-Extractor CD ripper

[ozok]

TAC is very useful, i have ripped a couple cds and it worked flawless. :)
Glad the hear it. Let me know if you experience a problem too.

[CarlPig]

I have found a cd that will not load.

This one: https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/bass-power-vol.-2/id383210789

I think it's because the metadata not exist on the freedb.

[CarlPig]

No help??

[Guest]

No help?? Please allow a reasonable amount of time before bumping like this. Thank you.

[ozok]

If you are seeing "Track" etc in the list instead of artist name etc, then probably CD isn't included in freedb. Or maybe TAC doesn't have internet access but this is highly unlikely. You can however, edit tags yourself. Select all the tracks in the list and edit common tags (artist, album etc). You'll have to enter title etc separately for each track.

[CarlPig]

The cd is playable in a media player, but TAC does not load the cd.

[ozok]

It's possible that cd isn't included in the freedb but in other databases. Are you certain that said player uses freedb?

[CarlPig]

The media player i used is Media Player Classic Black Edition and VLC Media Player.

I don't think these can use freedb.

And can still not get TAC to load the cd.

But another ripper Exact Audio Copy can load the cd.

[therube]

BTW why does TAC need to "decode" the audio when the source files are standard 44100/16bits WAV files ?

This issue looks to still exist.

Just to point out.
Went to compress some existing .wav with Flac & well... :-)

[ozok]

New beta release build 3555 (0.9.5 Beta):
-Added: [General] "Merge Audio" mode
-Added: [General] An option to use MediaInfo or tag libraries from 3delite.hu to read tags
-Added: [General] TAC will try to create temp folder at startup
-Added: [General] "Filters" button's icon will go grey if filters are disabled
-Added: [General] "Create log.zip" option to "Help" menu
-Added: [General] TAC will remember it's last position, window state and size
-Added: [General] Number of files will be shown at the bottom of the file list
-Added: [General] "Title", "Album", "Artist" and "Genre" columns to file list
-Added: [General] Clicking to column in the file list will sort the list
-Added: [General] "Album Artist" (%albumartist%) tag to custom folder/file option
-Added: [CDRipper] Will now ask confirmation when user wants to stop ripping
-Added: [General] A few minor features
-Fixed: [General] TAC couldn't rename some files if "Custom Folder Tree" was selected and tags contained invalid chars
-Fixed: [General] TAC wouldn't search external gif and bmp artwork files
-Fixed: [General] TAC wouldn't pad track no when "Custom folder tree" was selected
-Fixed: [General] Codec list and related controls didn't resize/move when window was resized
-Fixed: [General] Main window's dimensions are now smaller
-Fixed: [CDRipper] Wouldn't restore window title and menu items when stopped by user
-Fixed: [TTagger] A bug where tags couldn't be written because external artwork file was being used by an other process
-Updated: Oggenc2 to v2.87 (libvorbis 1.3.4)
-Updated: Opusenc to 0.1.8-git (using libopus 1.1.x-git)
-Updated: FLAC, ID3 and mp4 tag libraries

New file adding method is a few times faster (2-8 times in my experience) than older method. Merging works well but since it is new, there might be a few things I missed.

Download location: https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/downloads

[therube]

On startup I get:

Error: Failed to initialize CDRip (insufficient privileges?)

After the message, TAC then loads just fine.

I've modified library's source to show an error code which can help.



Error Code: 8

Error: Failed to initialize CDRip (insufficient privileges?) Error Code: 8




Possibly related, or maybe I'm just dense, but how do you get the Audio Player to play?
I've got a Pause, Stop, Timeline, & Volume, but nothing to start playback?

Yep, dense, heh.
Realized all this time I was loading videos & a double-click would then load the video in its default application.
Today, I loaded an audio file & that played as expected, using the BASS lib's & TAC's controls.
(Guess I was kind of expecting TAC to play the audio portion of a video file.)


-Added: [General] TAC will try to create temp folder at startup

Looks to be working as expected.

Thanks.

[ozok]

I'll investigate this error code to see if there is anything I can do about it.

[ozok]

I wonder if I'm getting that because I have no physical CD Drive?

Probably yes. Error code 8 is "CDEX_NOCDROMDEVICES" in cdrip.dll source.

[kolpotoru]

Thankyou for the fixes in TAudioConverter 0.9.5 BETA 3555 -
Now it is displaying properly in resolution 800x600.
window positions are now restored after reopening.

[ozok]

Thankyou for the fixes in TAudioConverter 0.9.5 BETA 3555 -
Now it is displaying properly in resolution 800x600.
window positions are now restored after reopening.

Did you have a chance to try merging?

[kolpotoru]

I tried merging it worked, but it would have been better if same bitrate mp3 files were joined without re-encoding.

[kolpotoru]

Good news -
TAudioConverter is now also on http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/taudioconverter-portable

[ozok]

New beta2 0.9.5 build 3684 changes:

Added: Several presets for mp3, aac and ogg vorbis
Added: Skinning is disabled as default
Added: TAC will rename encoded files on the fly
Added: Playback now stops at end point (cue, trim etc)
Added: Custom file/folder help is a text file instead of a message box
Fixed: Triple "\" in file path would cause some encoders to fail
Fixed: Cover art image path was written as a tag
Fixed: Couldn't write/read total track and disc no flac tags
Fixed: Stopping cd ripping didn't reset UI elements
Fixed: ID3v1 now has the lowest reading priority
Fixed: Encoding speed information was missing in cd ripping
Fixed: Track no and track count tags read from ID3v2 weren't parsed properly
Fixed: Lame channel option wasn't loaded/saved properly
Fixed: Controls in "Codec Options" window no longer look as if they are disabled
Updated: Tag libraries

Download: https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/downloads

[kolpotoru]

Trimmer dialog is skinned after disabling skins.

[ozok]

Trimmer dialog is skinned after disabling skins.
Thanks.

[Ryo94]

Even if I enable skin in settings the program disabled it after restart. I'm using v0.9.5.

[ozok]

Even if I enable skin in settings the program disabled it after restart. I'm using v0.9.5.
Thanks for reporting this. It was caused by a typo.

[ozok]

0.9.5 change log:
-Added: [General] "Merge Audio" mode
-Added: [General] Several presets for aac, mp3 and ogg vorbis
-Added: [General] An option to use MediaInfo or libraries from 3delite.hu to read tags
-Added: [General] TAC will rename files right after they are encoded
-Added: [General] TAC will try to create temp folder at startup
-Added: [General] "Filters" button's icon will go grey if filters are disabled
-Added: [General] "Create log.zip" option to "Help" menu
-Added: [General] TAC will remember it's last position, window state and size
-Added: [General] Number of files will be shown at the bottom of the file list
-Added: [General] "Title", "Album", "Artist" and "Genre" columns to file list (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Added: [General] Clicking to column in the file list will sort the list (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Added: [General] "Album Artist" (%albumartist%) tag to custom folder/file option
-Added: [General] Improved FLAC tag writing and reading
-Added: [CDRipper] Will now ask confirmation when user wants to stop ripping
-Added: [General] A few minor features and UI changes
-Added: [General] Skinning is disabled as default
-Fixed: [General] TAC couldn't rename some files if "Custom Folder Tree" was selected and tags contained invalid chars (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Fixed: [General] TAC wouldn't search external gif and bmp artwork files
-Fixed: [General] TAC wouldn't pad track no when "Custom folder tree" was selected
-Fixed: [General] TAC didn't respect start/end points during playback
-Fixed: [General] Codec list and related controls didn't resize/move when window was resized
-Fixed: [General] Main window's dimensions are now smaller
-Fixed: [General] Custom folder tree would fail with some cue files
-Fixed: [General] Lame channel option wasn't saved/loaded propery
-Fixed: [CDRipper] Wouldn't restore window title and menu items when stopped by user
-Fixed: [CDRipper] Wouldn't write artwork to ogg/opus files due to a bug in tag library
-Fixed: [CDRipper] Encoding speed information was missing
-Fixed: [TTagger] A bug where tags couldn't be written because external artwork file was being used by an other process (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Fixed: [TTagger] A bug where ttagger would write cover art path as a tag
-Updated: Opusenc to 0.1.8-git (using libopus 1.1.x-git)
-Updated: Tag libraries
-Updated: QAAC to 2.41
-Updated: RefAlac to 1.41
Download (http://www.fosshub.com/TAudioConverter.html)
Source (https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/src)

[therube]

[ TAC(0.9.5)portable_32bit.zip ]

fdkaac.exe & sox.exe are duplicated within Tools/ffmpeg (already in Tools/fdkaac, Tools/sox).

Is that intended?

[therube]

Suppose that we can assume the last selected option change to either 'Presets:' or 'Codec Options' will be what is used for the encode?

Seems that's true when alternating between those two selections.

But...

If you change the Codec:, then the settings default to those last defined/set in 'Codec Options' rather then anything else.

Suppose that is the correct behavior, just that it might not be too obvious what is occurring in that respect.

Also, if you change the Codec: & inadvertently select a Preset: that does not pertain to that codec, then the codec changes to the (I'm assuming) first codec available for the given preset.

So... just some things you need to be aware of, so that you don't end up with an mp3 when you were expecting a m4a or something like that.

[therube]

I had a .wav with a sample rate of 22.05 KHz.
Noticed that when TAC (recreates) the %TMP%/*.wav, it created it at 44.1 KHz, ~doubling the sources file size.

217 MB source .wav, (temporarily) output to a 455 MB .wav

Is that needed, expected?

[therube]

Two consecutive encodes, no changes in settings, are not creating bit identical encodes.
There are a few (6) bytes that differ in the file headers (it seems).

Is that expected?


(I don't recall that happening in the past?)

[ozok]

@therube
1) You can delete those files. I probably left them there when I was testing piping (ffmpeg>sox>fdkaac) to eleminate temp wav files.

2) Presets change codec and related options. Think of it as a shortcut to changing multiple options at once. So, if you select a preset and come to codec settings, you will see the changes made by the preset. You can, of course, override these options. But when you select a preset, it will change codec and related options accordingly.

FDKAAC is used as the AAC encoder. It doesn't have any depencies AFAIK, so it is a safe choise.

3) Yes it creates temp with those specifications unless you select different parameters (higher bit depth etc). I'm aware that TAC creates temp file even if the source is pcm wav.

4) Are you sure nothing is changed? It is normal to see differences between files created by different builds of the same encoders but there shouldn't be any difference if everything is kept the same. It is possibly related to tag writing method. Are you sure that in both cases the same approach (encoder itself or ttagger as tag writing method) was selected?

[therube]

4) Are you sure nothing is changed?
Add a file.
Tell it to encode.
Tell it to encode.
Tell it to encode.
Tell it to encode.

AFAIK I don't have tagging or anything like that enabled, though I suppose it is some sort of meta-data being written?

http://s2.postimg.org/xhy01hot1/kitaro44.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/xhy01hot1/)

BTW, the temporary .wav files compare identically.


Encoder1 commands:
-y -i "M:\MUSIC\wav\Kitaro - KoKoro.wav" -threads 1 -vn -acodec pcm_s16le -f wav
-af aresample=resampler=soxr -ar 44100 "C:\out\TAudio\{8D9A416E-4CE2-4932-B996-2FBB6F103507}.wav"
-m 1 -p 2 -G 0 --moov-before-mdat
"C:\out\TAudio\{8D9A416E-4CE2-4932-B996-2FBB6F103507}.wav" -o "C:\out\\{E1B90C7F-7707-4B35-B7FF-25EC8ECE45EB}.m4a"
" " "C:\out\TAudio\0tag.txt" "C:\out\\{E1B90C7F-7707-4B35-B7FF-25EC8ECE45EB}.m4a"
" " "C:\out\TAudio\rename0.txt"
===========================End===========================


0tag.txt & rename0.txt are created.
0tag.txt contains all the fields, though no values, all are like "Title=".

[ozok]

To be honest I don't know what else can cause this. If it bothers you, you can always send samples and I can take a look :).

[therube]

Ah, I see, running MediaInfo on the files, the Encode Data/Time differ.
So this must have been an "issue" all along, just noticed it before.

http://s15.postimg.org/4z35deg47/kitaro99.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/4z35deg47/full/)

Sorry for the noise.

[ozok]

No problem at all. I ran a few tests myself and differences were always at the same position so it had to be something like date. It's good to know that I didn't mess up something.

[ozok]

Please see the post below for all the changes in 0.9.6.
You can download beta update here (https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/downloads).
Please note that packages above only include portable TAudioConverter.exe, changelog.txt and some profiles. You'll need to have portable package of v0.9.5.

[ozok]

New version 0.9.6 changes:

-Added: [General] Progress list now shows a new item for each step
-Added: [General] Opus profiles
-Added: [General] Tag editor for audio merging (thx to Meeko)
-Fixed: [General] Skin enable/disable option wasn't saved
-Fixed: [CDRipper] CD ripping would fail if no tag info was found or no internet connection existed
-Fixed: [General] Writing artwork to OPUS files with opusenc failed (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Fixed: [CDRipper] Writing artwork to files ripped from CD with encoders didn't work
-Fixed: [CDRipper] "JPEG error #53" when refreshing cd track list
-Fixed: [General] Empty file name problem if "Custom folder tree" was selected and a tag contained a dot (thx to o-l-a-v)
-Fixed: [General] Updater showed an update while there wasn't one
-Fixed: [General] File adding duration info was wrong
-Fixed: [General] A few interface problems
-Updated: opusenc to 0.1.9
-Updated: QAAC to 2.42
-Updated: RefAlac to 1.42
-Updated: FDKAAC to 0.6.0

Source (https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/src)
Download (http://www.fosshub.com/TAudioConverter.html)

[ozok]

0.9.7 changes:

-Added: [CueSheet] Genre and date tags will be extracted
-Added: [General] Replaced refalac with ffmpeg as alac encoder
-Fixed: [General] Folder tree options weren't used if "Same as Source" button was checked
-Fixed: [CueSheet] Default output file name will be generate from tags instead of wave file
-Fixed: [CueSheet] Value shown in "Title" column in file list was wrong
-Fixed: [CueSheet] Padding applied to extracted duration information was wrong in some cases
-Removed: RefAlac from the package
-Removed: Ads from installers

Download (http://www.fosshub.com/TAudioConverter.html)
Source (https://bitbucket.org/ozok/taudioconverter-audio-converter/src)

[GMJCZP]

I have done several tests with the program.

I have identified three problems:

Problem 1:
When I codified with FDk AAC, activating either in "Gapless" "iTunSMPB" or "Both" an M4A file that plays only the left channel with MPC is generated, but with Nero Show Time (has its own codecs) sounds good , seems to be a compatibility problem with some of the K-Lite Full (K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1071_Mega), which I have installed. With Gapless "ISO standard (EDTS + SGPD)" option everything works perfectly.

Edit: the problem is with Lav Splitter and M4A container, if I change to Haali you listen well, or if I extract the AAC track with YAMB also arranged.

Summary: It is a problem of compatibility with LAV Splitter, iTunSMPB (FDK AAC) and M4A container.

Problem 2: I can not encode with QAAC, am I missing something?

Problem 3: If you try to repeat your work by pressing "Start" error message appears "Following files could not be created", to fix it you have to delete the destination folder created by the program (by default) the first time.

[ozok]

@GMJCZP
2) You need applesoftwaresupport (iTunes or Quicktime installation includes it). See https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/ for more information.
3) It can be related to overwrite option.

[Brazil2]

When I codified with FDk AAC, activating either in "Gapless" "iTunSMPB" or "Both" an M4A file
According to this page: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Gapless
FDK AAC does not support gapless encoding.

[GMJCZP]

Regarding the first problem, let people FDK aac take action on the matter, thanks Brazil2.

Regarding the second problem, I have avoided installing QuickTime Alternative, my mistake, thanks ozok.

And the third case, I guess it's something unique to the program.

Thanks again for your prompt replies. :)

[hajj_3]

has this project been abandoned?