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Audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
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Lower observed audio quality than groove in dopamine with wav files. #1077

Open viasux opened 4 years ago

viasux commented 4 years ago

I'm submitting a...


[x] Bug report

I'm using these versions

chadfranklin47 commented 4 years ago

Could you describe the problem a bit more? What do you mean lower quality? Does it sound compressed as if playing a <320kbps file? Also, could you try converting the WAV file to FLAC and see if the problem persists with FLAC? FLAC is also lossless just in case you were unaware.

viasux commented 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure that FLAC can sound worse, since software has to de-compress it before playing, and sometimes it's not done perfectly. I'm not a musical expert, so I don't have an exact explanation, all I know is that I can hear less clearly when listening through dopamine. Almost like it's being played through a sock or something. Everything sounds more muffled or something (although not as bad as if it was literally played through a sock). The issue is still present after updating to 2.0

viasux commented 4 years ago

Could you describe the problem a bit more? What do you mean lower quality? Does it sound compressed as if playing a <320kbps file? Also, could you try converting the WAV file to FLAC and see if the problem persists with FLAC? FLAC is also lossless just in case you were unaware.

Btw, equalizer in Groove is set to flat & it's set off in Dopamine, so it shouldn't be altering the audio

viasux commented 4 years ago

Could you describe the problem a bit more? What do you mean lower quality? Does it sound compressed as if playing a <320kbps file? Also, could you try converting the WAV file to FLAC and see if the problem persists with FLAC? FLAC is also lossless just in case you were unaware.

FLAC sounds even worse than wav in the player, just tested

chadfranklin47 commented 4 years ago

@AverytheFurry In the changelog for update 2.0.1, https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine-windows/blob/master/Dopamine/Changelog.txt, @digimezzo says he reverted some changes to the audio decoding. Hopefully, that should fix the problem, but I haven't gotten that update yet. You can try downgrading to update 1.5.x and see if the problem persists there. If not, then we know for sure that the problem is with dopamine 2.x. But as for me, I haven't noticed any difference between Groove and Dopamine audio quality. Using a Mayflower Arc and Sennheiser HD58x. I'm interested in what the problem could be.

viasux commented 4 years ago

@AverytheFurry In the changelog for update 2.0.1, https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine-windows/blob/master/Dopamine/Changelog.txt, @digimezzo says he reverted some changes to the audio decoding. Hopefully, that should fix the problem, but I haven't gotten that update yet. You can try downgrading to update 1.5.x and see if the problem persists there. If not, then we know for sure that the problem is with dopamine 2.x. But as for me, I haven't noticed any difference between Groove and Dopamine audio quality. Using a Mayflower Arc and Sennheiser HD58x. I'm interested in what the problem could be.

I was on version 1.5.14 when i posted initially & have the same problem on 2.0

chadfranklin47 commented 4 years ago

@AverytheFurry My bad, didn't see that. I guess him reverting the code for 2.0.1 won't do much help then. We'll see what @digimezzo can do when he gets around to this issue.

viasux commented 4 years ago

@AverytheFurry My bad, didn't see that. I guess him reverting the code for 2.0.1 won't do much help then. We'll see what @digimezzo can do when he gets around to this issue.

Theres a small chance, as with any auditory thing, that im getting placebo'd, although the difference is large enough that i doubt it.

viasux commented 4 years ago

Still an issue in 2.0.1