Playback is choppy in the editor but plays normal in a media player

Myu wrote on 3/15/2023, 8:34 PM

For some sound files playback is very choppy only playing blips. Playing the same file in VLC media player has no issues. I noticed the files that this happens to the channel meter is going up to about -3dB and stops. It is like there is a ceiling right there that cuts every audio file off. Any ideas what might be going on? Is there a limiter setting somewhere?

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Myu wrote on 3/15/2023, 9:01 PM

Looking at the files more I have found a pattern that it is only files that play at 44,100 Hz. Files that are 32,000 or VBR don't have issues.

rraud wrote on 3/16/2023, 11:18 AM

@Myu, your files are most likely a lossy format (MP3, AAC, FLAC). Enable "Always proxy compressed formats" in the "Options> Preferences> General" menu.
Both Sound Forge Pro and Audio Studio have this setting.

Myu wrote on 3/16/2023, 12:04 PM

I tried that and didn't help this time. Should that setting be disabled when working with wav formats? Just now I was running this issue by with OpenAI's chatGPT and one of the better ideas it came up with was to try mp3val. Turns out every mp3 that was 44.1kHz was flagged for a problem. The auto repair fixed the files and now they work. Thankfully because it was hundreds.

What is strange is that I played every single one of them 3 months ago in SF to add comments to each. Even redownloading the mp3 bundle from an off location server to test with the original files didn't work. Turns out the original also had the same issues according to mp3val and SF pro didn't care about the mp3 problems previously. I guess it is pickier after the last updates.

rraud wrote on 3/16/2023, 1:01 PM

Should that setting be disabled when working with wav formats?

It is not necessary to disable it for PCM file types.

I guess it is pickier after the last updates.

It seems the updates do not fix the known bugs and just cause new issues. I reverted back to SFP-15 due to the VST problems..