It's a good idea Gerard.
The rightclick and show/open emerged from wanting to open a few tracks only at times, and then I combined it with "show".
But something else will come instead. Could even be "open", looking at your own drawn example above (left mid).

Peter

I think I heard a difference, yes, and what I heard came to me as from good old 0.9pd. I have the priorities set though. BUT :

This is with attended playback.
With unattended playback there should be no difference with 0.9s. I must say though that unattended playback itself (i.e. since 0.9s), - though rather different - is hard for me to be satisfied with (thoughout all music that is). So I've been playing around with settings lately, and yesterday I ended up with Q1=-3, Invert, Double. That setting didn't change the remainder of the night, so it looks promising.
If I can keep that up tonight, it must be better.

But Andrey, what about your demo version ? why ?
Also : Better sound after activation, so be careful with that.

All I can say is :

It is a non-lineair (explicit) means of influencing jitter, or "jitter effect" when measured at analogue-out of the DAC.

The way Q1 works is "one way" of doing it, while there are more methods in my mind (Q2 will do that in some future).

In either case the passing of data is bit perfect (until things get over driven and distortion occurs).

Demo version ?

When in Demo, it is so ...

Library = Library (dictionary).
Galery is an abstraction or showoff of reality (dictionary).

You'll get 101 results when the Test checkbox is ticked. :-)


Just add all your different folders to the one Galery. Then ask for that one Galery.
Different drive letters should work, but were not tested (as I told, I think ).

If there's anything else, please ask !
Peter

Hi Andrey,

Well, maybe you are the only one who wants to know really, or wants to understand really ... or ... But here is my kind of answer :

Whatever the Q1 is set to, that's bit perfect.
The Invert box, when checked, of course is not. But it's nothing more (or less) than indeed inverting the phase. So revert that back (at the output) and you'd have bit perfect again. Now why ...

As it occured, once the Q1 goes over "a hurdle" indeed it seems that the phase gets (at least) acoustically) inverted. I could present you with a theory for that, but it would be a kind of blabla, because I would have to make it up. Anyway, I am not the only one perceiving that (and to me it is kind of logic, but that's the blabla thing ). So, that's why the Invert emerged ... to counteract that.

In the mean time, a few of us (amongst those, me) think that Inverting the phase has different "effects" than just inverting the phase.
Sidenote : inverting the absolute phase (that's what it is, so nothing about left/right stuff) is something only few people can hear. It is about things starting to suck instead of blow, and the other way around. You can maybe imagine, that when this is so, at the higher frequencies a too sharp "blow", will be softened by sucking instead. So, it does something to the sound which possibly is perceived as better to the ears/mind.

Of course all starts to be rather confusing if you again think about the hurdle as mentioned. Thus, e.g. when Q1 goes from 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 ... suddenly with Invert checked it sounds better. But is the phase acoustically now inverted or not ?
This all is related to "what is the base setting anyway", which we don't know, since we did not even know it could change.

Also think about "absolute phase" as something that's in an instrument, like a drum which obviously should start with a blow. However, since at recordings not much attention is payed to how microphones (or mixing consoles) are connected according to absolute phase, the various instruments/voices are recorded with mixed absolute phase. So there's no one best setting for "Invert". Still, if you listen to the difference, in general (so over various albums) one setting is better than the other, and is related to the Q1 setting.

However, there is no technical relation to Q1 whatsoever in the program, but in practice / acoustically there is ...

Peter

Hmm ... I'm very sorry. I just checked, you're right.
It did work though (like yesterday morning).

Will be repaired ...

Looks dangerous to let these things handle by "me". But I'll think about it.

It i a good idea and I thought about that myself. Right now it would slow down things too much.
But it's in my mind ...

With this version so many things changed, that it's virtually impossible to test it all.
Also, quite a few things still have to be done to finish it all (see list at the bottom).

• For the below assume that the Chk checkbox (see picture at the botton) is NOT checked, unless otherwise noted. In other words, mentioned (new) functionalities do not work with that checkbox checked !
  
  
• The most important change is the virtually inifit numbers of Album and Track data in the Library Area;
  
  Per this version this won't consume "the more memory the more data" anymore, and the speed of obtaining all surpasses imagination.
  All this was tested with some 5,000 Albums and the implied number of Tracks in there (say 50,000).
  
  
• A result from the before is that Albums or Tracks (whatever was selected in the Library Area) will reload at a next startup without notice.
  
  
• Active Search - as was available before when the Library Area had the focus (like with clicking on it) - has been eliminated;
  Instead, this now can be done by typing in the Search field right next to the Search button.
  Only when you have a really more old processor, searching like this in Track data should be avoided; It will be to slow. But look for yourself.
  
  
• Search is now default in Album (path) text. This is visualized (and ordered for) by means of an "A" in the small time field next to the larger search text field (the A is there by default now). Only when a T is entered in that field, search will be performed in Tracks, as well as everything else that implies search in tracks (like asking for "duration larger than", etc.).
  
  
• In all, WAV as well as FLAC as well as MP3 is supported now.
  
  The screen shot below shows the salmon color (2x) for FLAC, the bright pink (3x) for MP3 and normal white (1x) for WAV.
  
  
• The supporting text at each Album, contains the file type like (WAV) (FLAC) (MP3) (see below screen shot).
  
  Since it is this text where active search is performed upon, typing e.g. (WAV) in the search field presents WAV files only (IOW the other files will disappear).
  
  
• Per Album aksed for (like Loading it in the Playlist Area) the tracks are sorted.
  
  This was not so before, and with systems that did not contain standard "Windows sort order" (like with UDF formatted disks) the sequence would be dependend on the sequence of storing there (the UDF disk).
  
  
• What about the Search button ?
  
  Active Search (by means of typing in the text field right next to the Search button) if different from pressing that Search button;
  First advise is : at pressing the Search Button, take care that nothing is entered in the text field for searching. Why ?
  The search will be the fastest, and right after it's finished you can start with Active Search. But :
  
  Try to understand that whatever the result is after pressing the Search button, this result is kind of fixed until a next press of the Search button;
  The possibly more complex thing to understand is that this is related to the next startup of XXHighEnd, where the last contents of the Library Area will be presented as how it was at the last shutdown (Off). Thus, the Search button limits the result (with whatever was entered for search critera at using it) until it is used again. Or in other words : when you are after search patterns in Album/Track data anyway, better find them by means of Active Search, which is instantly (and looking for the same at pressing Search is not).
  
  
• At Active Search (which is typing in the textfield for that), the result will be more and more limited accordingly;
  
  Important : Often you will be doing this when a particulair item (e.g. Album) is visual in the Library Area. It is just were you are, and what made you think "now let's look for ...". Now, when you backout the typed charachters, don't do that too fast. You wil notice when this is done with some ease, you will end up at the Item (e.g. Album) where you left off. When you type too fast, the list will show the first Item of the list, instead of the one were you were at starting the typing.
  
  
• Physical Copy is now possible with a physical Album (or Track) as the base (before only Galeries could serve this).
  
  
  
• The slider at the right bottom corner now allows for realtime adjusting the picture sizes.
  
  Also note that the picture size is not important anymore for therespnse times, nor memory useage.
  
  
• Rightclick at an Album picture in the Library Area now has an option "Show/Load tracks".
  
  Clicking that will open Explorer, and from there you can chose individual tracks for the Album clicked.
  Note : when Tracks show in the Library Area this feature might workout wrongly (it just wasn't tested).
  
  
• Rightclick at an Album picture in the Library Area now shows a "Play Each" option.
  
  As you will notice only the first two options in there currently are implemented, and they allow respectively to play each Tracknumber of all before selected Albums (like all 3rd tracks), or each nth Track starting at the first selected Album (like play each 35fth track that's found in there).
  The latter implies a kind of random playback, while the first allows for examining a bunch of (new) Albums.
  
  
• The Playlist Area now allows for Rightclick on (selected) Tracks;
  
  Important : look at the second screen shot at the bottom. This should show the options for Delete Tracks and Add to Galery;
  When it shows Copy / Paste and such stuff, it means that you rightclicked the (a) track concerned so that you entered (copy/paste) text mode. Just play with it a little and you'll feel how to click.
  
  Even more important : When you depend on selected tracks on either deleting Tracks or adding them to a Galery, you will notice for sure that this interferes with the current playback (if playback is going on). On this matter, note that the next track playing will be the next one selected (although this is awkwardish for a longer time anyway).
  Anyway, this is meant of deleting tracks from a before made "Load tracks into the Playlist Area" which was a tad too rough, or otherwise allows for storing a just playing Track in a Galery; the first you would be doing when Playback not commenced anyway (well, gernerally) and the second would be more important than Playback continuing without interruption.
  Also note that the latter would work with Unattended Playback, the currently playing Track being at the top, and you wanting to store that in a Galery after just auditioning it, bringing up XXHighEnd just to sore it ...
  
  
• A very general feauture, and hard to explain, is the now very easy comparing at selecting Albums for "do I have it or not";
  
  All it takes it the startup of XXHighEnd twice, and the one showing Albums (by picture) of those Albums you examine to be there on another drive, the second instance of XXHighEnd ready to let you Active Search what you see in the first instance, immediately showing (by Album picture) whether it's already there on the other drive.
  Too hard to explain, but you will get the grasp at really trying a thing like this ("do I have it there already ?").
  
  
• Just for your information : when you physically copy Albums, keep on using the Checkboxes (the Chk checkbox);
  Loading data in this mode will be as slow as before, but the Selection by means of checkboxes is so much more convenient ...
  
  
• Priorities for Vista/Engine#3 now have a default which is logical for that situation.
  
  

Issues :

• The Grp checkbox will not work anymore, or anyway this was not tested at all.
  Probably it will disappear in a next version.
  
  
• There are so many things to tell about the useage of the View settings (with TextUnder as default), that they hardly can be told anymore;
  The ToolTips describe briefly (and too brief) what's going on, and currently it is more a matter of finding out your own.
  The most imortant "issue" is the knowlegde about when Active Search indeed shows the results immediately and when not. TextUnder for sure is okay though.
  
  
• Currently, Duration Search will not workout properly (at all) for FLAC and MP3.
  
  
• Sorting when mixed source directories (indirectly implied by Galeries) are at order, is not explicitly there. Currently it may work out, or it may just not.
  
  
• Currently it is not exactly known why, but at creating a Galery from a large amount of base data (say well over 1,000 albums) an Out of Memory error can be the result (this already was so at the before versions).
  Solution : split the commands to add to the Galery (like 500 + 500 Albums).
  
  
• When (several) spaces are entered in the test field for Searchm en arror will occur (invalid characters for path or similar). This might happen easily with a touch screen and entering data;
  At a next startup the error will remain. Just try to get rid of the spaces in there.
  
  
• Getting data into a genaral "All Music" Library, does not explicitly anticipate on getting the data from more than one drive(letter);
  This was not tested, and most probably it won't work, or it won't work in all cases to be found.
  Note this is related to actually needing more than one "MusicRoot" (Settings Area).
  
  
• There's no explicit anticipation on Cue files yet.
  
  
• You can have a "general" coverart picture at a higher level (even the root of the disk);
  When an attempt is made to delete this by means of righclick on it and choose "Delete image from disk", an error is the result.
  
  
• When large amounts of data (say over 10,000 Tracks) are copied to a Galery, it will be obvious that the progress bar stops progressing after a few cm;
  This is normal, though unwanted, and will be changed in a next version.
  
  

A last notice :
Many things in this version are virtually "impossible". This is all about the speed and the, say, intuivity of things. You wouldn't be able to copy them with normal Windows behaviour. It is exactly this why it took rather long to create it, and it will also be the reason why you will find quite a few things not working as intended. On that matter, please take into account that it might take a while to solve them all.
Anyway, please mention - whatever it is you find - as much as possible in its own topic.



Thanks,
Peter

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/umpc/default.mspx

Note the thing weighs 960 grams. A tad too heavy for being ultra portable.

It's an Asus R2h : http://www.pdashop.nl/product/31764/asus-r2h.html
At the top right it says : actual status : never deliverable anymore. ehh ...

Anyway, it has Wifi, bluetooth and ... GPRS (and GSM).

The alternatives on the mentioned page shown, are similar products indeed for what we want to do with it, although they 'll run XP I think (by itself unrelated when you use RDC), have less memory and some other rather unrelated things.

Important : Since this is a tablet PC, I think it is common that these devices are not as "touchable" as with normal touch screens. You'd really need a pen, or long finger nails (which I honestly don't have). Touching is done by firm tapping, and not by soft pressing like a finger would do.

I don't think any touch screen as "we" intend for the job here will suffice, unless you use a pen to touch. I mean, all will be too small for fingers anyway.
Also, but this may be very personal, I don't think it is the way to set it all up. No matter what, you will be "squeezing" the playback machine (for disk space or other matters) and need an external display anyway (for larger jobs to do). Again, it will be personal.

Below you see my current touch device, wifi connected to the playback PC which is wherever it needs to be (near to the stereo equipment) and which is as large as it needs to be.
All can (IMO) be done as easy as possible if only a pen is used for the touch operations, but I just prefer a mouse.
Also note that you just can't do without a keyboard for the (now very extended Library Search in the upcoming 0.9t version), which of course can be done by means of the very awkward on-screen keyboard. So, here I'd prefer a keyboard again (for the device you see below I have a very nice small keyboard, not connected here).

Then there's another culprit, as I found;
The device as how I use it, is RDC (RDP) connected to the playback machine. However, the touch screen facilities like "rightclick" (i.e. press until the circle is full after which the context menu pops up) aren't recognized by the main PC (or I don't know how to set that up). Do note that when this is not working, touch screen operation is just not possible ! So here too, I have a mouse ...

Concluded : XXHighEnd allows for all, but it is other, general things that make it all awkwardish.

Peter


PS: The size of XX you see below is 640x480.The size of this screen is 800x480.

Hi Brian,

I think the cheapest way is the new motherboard, assuming (!) that the Celeron isn't worth much (for Vista in general).
Also, you'd be able then to mount a couple of additional harddisks when needed.

Personally I'd never go the laptop route, because they (very often) bring more problems than conveniency.
Note that for the conveniency of playback (you behind the knobs) there are other means, unrelated to the PC actually doing the job of playback. Now do think of a laptop (or even smaller) and the means of RDC (before called RDP), or maybe the "ultimate" ... a small (maybe touch sensitive) display just connected to a long cable to the big machine somewhere hidden. Same for the keyboard (both can cope with runs of 15 meters). They keyboard can be connected by infrared of course, if it doesn't disturb the sound.

If you go tge RDC route, be sure to buy a Vista version that supports it (on your "new" the playback machine).

Peter

Hi Tobias,

Sorry to hear this.

Of course I'm interested in your problem, just to help out ...
I hope I can though.

The obvious question : what changed this two days ago ? of course there must be something ...
You can send an example, but I don't think that will help.

When you have these kind of problems, set the Processor Scheme "No Appointment", and reboot to be certain all will be as normal as can be. Same with the Priorities (set them to "Nothing").

If that does not help at all, please attach a screencopy of your cpu useage (Taskmanager - Performance) during playback.
If it does help, we'll proceed from there.

Peter

No it is not. But depending on how things in there work / are connected, the Firewire power could be transferred into there.