- Switch from `lewton` to `Symphonia`. This is a pure Rust demuxer
and decoder in active development that supports a wide range of
formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3, AAC and FLAC for future HiFi
support. At the moment only Ogg Vorbis and MP3 are enabled; all
AAC files are DRM-protected.
- Bump MSRV to 1.51, required for `Symphonia`.
- Filter out all files whose format is not specified.
- Not all episodes seem to be encrypted. If we can't get an audio
key, try and see if we can play the file without decryption.
- After seeking, report the actual position instead of the target.
- Remove the 0xa7 bytes offset from `Subfile`, `Symphonia` does
not balk at Spotify's custom Ogg packet before it. This also
simplifies handling of formats other than Ogg Vorbis.
- When there is no next track to load, signal the UI that the
player has stopped. Before, the player would get stuck in an
infinite reloading loop when there was only one track in the
queue and that track could not be loaded.
* Expose all fields of recent protobufs
* Add support for user-scoped playlists, user root playlists and
playlist annotations
* Convert messages with the Rust type system
* Attempt to adhere to embargos (tracks and episodes scheduled for
future release)
* Return `Result`s with meaningful errors instead of panicking on
`unwrap`s
* Add foundation for future playlist editing
* Up version in connection handshake to get all version-gated features
While `Xoshiro256+` is faster on 64-bit, it has low linear complexity in the
lower three bits, which *are* used when generating dither.
Also, while `Xoshiro128StarStar` access one less variable from the heap,
multiplication is generally slower than addition in hardware.
This caused quite a bump in CPU usage, which be acceptable if this
actually improved sound quality. However, it turns out that this
function only has one decimal precision, i.e. it would consider
all values from `0.50..0.60` (exclusive) as `0.5` which is in
error for our purposes.
Dithering lowers digital-to-analog conversion ("requantization") error, linearizing output, lowering distortion and replacing it with a constant, fixed noise level, which is more pleasant to the ear than the distortion.
Guidance:
- On S24, S24_3 and S24, the default is to use triangular dithering. Depending on personal preference you may use Gaussian dithering instead; it's not as good objectively, but it may be preferred subjectively if you are looking for a more "analog" sound akin to tape hiss.
- Advanced users who know that they have a DAC without noise shaping have a third option: high-passed dithering, which is like triangular dithering except that it moves dithering noise up in frequency where it is less audible. Note: 99% of DACs are of delta-sigma design with noise shaping, so unless you have a multibit / R2R DAC, or otherwise know what you are doing, this is not for you.
- Don't dither or shape noise on S32 or F32. On F32 it's not supported anyway (there are no integer conversions and so no rounding errors) and on S32 the noise level is so far down that it is simply inaudible even after volume normalisation and control.
New command line option:
--dither DITHER Specify the dither algorithm to use - [none, gpdf,
tpdf, tpdf_hp]. Defaults to 'tpdf' for formats S16
S24, S24_3 and 'none' for other formats.
Notes:
This PR also features some opportunistic improvements. Worthy of mention are:
- matching reference Vorbis sample conversion techniques for lower noise
- a cleanup of the convert API
