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New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by joshspankit »

everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

Maybe it’s just me, but every lossless codec that’s:

1. Not FLAC

2. Not as open-source as FLAC

comes across as a patent play.

FLAC is excellent and widely supported (and where it’s not supported some new at-least-open-enough codec will also not be supported). I have yet to see a compelling argument for lossless audio encoders that are not FLAC.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by qzx_pierri »

everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

Maybe they want to sell it to a streaming service or something.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by Grimblewald »

HakanAbbas wrote: post #38
everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.

You may be trying to kill all criticisms, this is not possible. Not everyone will like you and not everyone will like your code. Fortunatly people irl that have personal differences tend to be a but more tactful than the software crowd can be online but something like this bound to get overwhelming amounts of love.

No great project started out great and the best open source projects got to their state because of the open sourcing.

Consider the problems you might be spending a lot of time solving might be someone else's trivial issue, so unless this is an enjoyable academic excercise for you (which i fully support), why suffer?

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by Aurornis »

HakanAbbas wrote: post #38
everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.

> When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source

There is a chicken and egg problem with this strategy: Few people will want to, or even be able to, use this unless it’s open source and freely licensed.

The alternatives are mature, open or mostly open, and widely implemented. Minor improvements in speed aren’t enough to get everyone to put up with any difficulties in getting it to work. The only way to get adoption would be to make it completely open and as easy as possible to integrate everywhere.

It’s a cool project, but the reality is that keeping it closed until it’s “completed” will prevent adoption.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by gchamonlive »

HakanAbbas wrote: post #38
everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.

You could open it now and crowd-source the missing pieces. I really see nothing to lose by making this oss-first.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by HakanAbbas »

Grimblewald wrote: post #114
HakanAbbas wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.

You may be trying to kill all criticisms, this is not possible. Not everyone will like you and not everyone will like your code. Fortunatly people irl that have personal differences tend to be a but more tactful than the software crowd can be online but something like this bound to get overwhelming amounts of love. No great project started out great and the best open source projects got to their state because of the…

I have no problem trying to kill criticism. I'm just trying to do what I love as a hobby(academic).

Or maybe it's better for me to do things like fishing, swimming as a hobby.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by yc-kraln »

HakanAbbas wrote: post #46
shmerl wrote: post #19

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there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.

until you release the source, it will never be used by someone, so I guess you are stuck in a loop and it will enver be opened.

Re: New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

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Post by [deleted] »

everythingctl wrote: post #12

Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year. I struggle to see…

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