Music Media Helper (Tools for Multichannel Audio & Music Videos)

[ted_b]

Garry,
How difficult to add 7.1.6 to the drop down in Atmos helper? I’m not sure the encoder even has that config. Thx

 

[tormento]

Newbie here.
I was using MMH 8.0.6 on an old windows laptop, but just upgraded to a new HP laptop and installed 8.0.7
MMH8 Launches and seems to work fine except that when I click "MMH Atmos Helper" the launch circle (attached to cursor) spins for a second or two but no Atmos Helper screen appears. All the other screens load. Reloaded .NET, tried to run as admin to no avail.

I notice that MMH itself uses DevExpress at 24.1.6 but MMH Atmos Helper 24.1.7, could that be it?

...
I was able to revert to 8.0.5 and it works ...

It happens to me too. Unfortunately I can’t find any older version to rollback.

 

[Marplot]

ATMOS Helper is an option inside v8 are you using that or your older v7 link which was separate?

 

[HomerJAU]

What algorithm does ffmpeg use for DR?

I’ve no idea. It creates a DR reading for each channel and an Overall DR which is the (Total of each channel DR) / (No. of Channels).

When I first discovered ffmpeg could do DR I compared to Foobar and values were identical so I presume Ffmpeg uses same algorithm as Foobar.

MMH uses ffmpeg to get channel DR but excludes channels with very low volume or Peak Max from the calc as that gives misleading DR values or very high DR > 22 caused by a silent channel with a single spike. These MMH ‘rules’ do not affect most files but corrects some abnormal readings from SACD conversions and some Atmos files where channels are not silent (very low level noise. If you can’t hear the channel it should not be included in the DR calculation, right?

 

[HomerJAU]

Newbie here.
I was using MMH 8.0.6 on an old windows laptop, but just upgraded to a new HP laptop and installed 8.0.7
MMH8 Launches and seems to work fine except that when I click "MMH Atmos Helper" the launch circle (attached to cursor) spins for a second or two but no Atmos Helper screen appears. All the other screens load. Reloaded .NET, tried to run as admin to no avail.

I notice that MMH itself uses DevExpress at 24.1.6 but MMH Atmos Helper 24.1.7, could that be it?

...
I was able to revert to 8.0.5 and it works ...

They should be using same version (24.1.7). I will fix today.

 

[HomerJAU]

Hey Garry,

Just a thought… Do you think it would be possible to have a preferences option where you could change the default track number plus file name structure? A lot of my music is stored as eg 01 - songtitle.m4a but if I use MMH after using musicbrainz / tag and rename, the file name will always default to 01. songtitle.m4a.

I just wonder if there is a way to set up an option to personalise it? I see there is already a tick box under Preferences to ‘Use Artist Name in File Names’ but is it possible you could have the option to have a different file name structure? Eg 01 - songtitle

Cheers

I’ll add that option a future release. Let me fix the reported bugs first today in a new 8.0.8 release.

The new file naming option will be added in 8.0.9 (sometime over the weekend).

 

[HomerJAU]

Last beta of 8.0.7. I’d like to rollback but can’t find where to download the previous version.

I can easily change theme but the strange part is that when I delete the folder, it remembers when I change to white.

Is mandatory to install Dolby Reference Player in the default path? I installed it on a different partition and that’s probably the reason of greyed out Atoms button. Perhaps it should ask for path as it does for DEE.

EDITED:
MMH saves preferences to the registry. I probably should be saving to a local (editable/deletable) file but the preference code has been in MMH from the beginning, more than 10 years ago. I’ll change in near future.
MMH preferences are saved in a random named folder under here in a .config file (xml)
C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage\...

I will change this at some stage to be more accessible to users

The DRP is assumed to be installed in the default Program Files folder. (You are first user to report that’s not your install folder).

 

[ted_b]

Garry,
I'm trying Atmos helper for the first time, but clicking on the button in the loader screen simply runs something for a few seconds and then nothing. I'm on Win 11 and have Net 8, etc

 

[HomerJAU]

Garry,
I'm trying Atmos helper for the first time, but clicking on the button in the loader screen simply runs something for a few seconds and then nothing. I'm on Win 11 and have Net 8, etc

This will be fixed today. I didn't refresh the latest installer 8.0.7 correctly with latest dependencies.

 

[MrSmithers]

I’ll add that option a future release. Let me fix the reported bugs first today in a new 8.0.8 release.

The new file naming option will be added in 8.0.9 (sometime over the weekend).

Thanks Garry - you’re a legend! I’m putting you forward for an MBE for MMH! There’s no rush at all I just thought it might be good as a small niche feature.

Cheers

 

[HomerJAU]

MMH 8.0.8 released:

Version 8.0.8 (November 8 2024)
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Fixes:
MMH 8.0.7 Installer uses incorrect dependency files - fixed
MMH Atmos Helper in 8.0.7 not starting correctly - fixed (see above dependency files)
Join and Split files tool: CUE file creation - now uses two digit minutes if minutes < 60 - fixed

Changes:
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.1.7 (now correctly added)

Previous change log (not posted yesterday)
Version 8.0.7 (November 7 2024)
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Fixes:
DR measurement failed for some flac files due to issue with ffmpeg - fixed

Changes:
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.1.7 (edit this was not applied correctly - fixed in 8.0.8)
Updated Ffmpeg to 7.1.0

Direct download link to 8.0.8 installer:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/MMHInstaller.msi

 

[himey]

MMH 8.0.8 released:

Version 8.0.8 (November 8 2024)
-------------
Fixes:
MMH 8.0.7 Installer uses incorrect dependency files - fixed
MMH Atmos Helper in 8.0.7 not starting correctly - fixed (see above dependency files)
Join and Split files tool: CUE file creation - now uses two digit minutes if minutes < 60 - fixed

Changes:
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.1.7 (now correctly added)

Previous change log (not posted yesterday)
Version 8.0.7 (November 7 2024)
-------------
Fixes:
DR measurement failed for some flac files due to issue with ffmpeg - fixed

Changes:
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.1.7 (edit this was not applied correctly - fixed in 8.0.8)
Updated Ffmpeg to 7.1.0

Direct download link to 8.0.8 installer:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/MMHInstaller.msi

Atmos helper not opening. I had skipped the previous update.
Edit...
It says 8.0.7

 

[HomerJAU]

Atmos helper not opening. I had skipped the previous update.
Edit...
It says 8.0.7

I had the wrong link in my last post. Try it again.

 

[himey]

Try it again.

Thanks. Cue works great!

 

[HomerJAU]

@MrSmithers

I've added a new MMH Global preference to support file naming with ' - " as you asked

MMH 8.0.9 Beta 1 here:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/beta/MMHInstaller.msi

The new Preference dialog looks like this: (access from the Launcher toolabar menu's 'Preferences')

 

[MrSmithers]

@MrSmithers

I've added a new MMH Global preference to support file naming with ' - " as you asked

MMH 8.0.9 Beta 1 here:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/beta/MMHInstaller.msi

The new Preference dialog looks like this: (access from the Launcher toolabar menu's 'Preferences')

View attachment 110848

Fantastic! Looks great, thanks Garry!

 

[tormento]

The DRP is assumed to be installed in the default Program Files folder. (You are first user to report that’s not your install folder).

I have a small C: partition. Please allow us to customize its path, at least in the preferences file.

 

[tormento]

Linked to the above message: unfortunately my C: partition has little space left.

How can I set an alternative temp folder for atmos operations?

 

[M-K]

MMH uses ffmpeg to get DR stats.

If you don’t believe me copy the ffmpeg.exe file from your working 6.4.8 version to your MMH 7 version or any MMH 8 prior to latest beta and you see the MMH DR bug is fixed.

Latest MMH beta release adds that old ffmpeg version to MMH as ‘ffmpeg.4.4.exe’ and uses that for ffmpeg -stats command used to get DR.

EDIT: Don’t do this as a permanent fix as the old ffmpeg does not contain new features used in MMH 7 and 8.

I believe you, but that surprised me. Because I did not expect that ffmpeg is capable of doing this. Now it is working great. Thank you.
Getting the DR is very helpful - no required - when using the Channel Volume tool.

 

[paligap]

In the Rename Audio Folders function, no matter what folder I specify in Destination Directory, it puts the renamed folders in the Source Directory. Is that intentional?