Hey Spoon, I can confirm something else is going on - having the same issues with Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Version 20H2 Build 19042.630
PHP Code:
Off-topic, FDKAAC is set to maximum Channels being 6, can confirm 8 channels is supported. Changed the MAXCHANNELS to 8 and the encoded file plays with all 8 channels in Foobar2000 properly (confirmed with the VU meter visualization) but oddly enough when you right-click and hit properties, dBpoweramp says it's a six-channel file so not sure what the deal is there...
Anyway, back the QAAC issue, I've tried the following:
Installed older version of iTunes from the Apple Store (non-Unified App version, Windows .exe)
Result: No change, same error
Tried setting qaac64.exe to run as Administrator
Result: No error and encode said complete, but 0kb .m4a.tmp.m4a file leftover and no final result
Tried Reinstalling the QAAC dBpoweramp encoder
Result: no change, and actually, uninstalling the QAAC encoder did not reset the qaac64.exe back to running without admin right - I had to go back in and change the app defaults. Don't know if this is something that dBPoweramp could check but just wanted to put it out there
OK, so I went to the dBpoweramp Advanced Settings configuration, checked "music converter debug" then tried again.
Result:
Code:
Splitting Command Line:"C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\CoreConverter.exe" -dbcmd="C:\Users\usaft\AppData\Local\Temp\dBT5EB8.tmp"
->-> [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
BatchID [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\m4a QAAC (iTunes).DLL'
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID [clEncoder::Set]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed [clEncoder::Get]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
NeedHQAudio [clEncoder::Get]
Decode As [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [clDecoder::Open]
Opening file 'C:\Users\usaft\Music\Remastered\Test for Bass Behavior_new settings.flac' for read access: Opened
Init FLAC:
Reading Meta Data:
contained 0 tags:
->-> [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
<-<- [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
Encoder: FLAC REAPER
Sample Count: 2,880,000
Contains: CRC
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Uncompressed WFX (sent to db): Format Tag: 1 Channels: 8 Bits per Sample: 24 Samples Per Second: 48000 Bytes Per Second: 1152000 Block Align: 24 CB Size: 0
Audio Length: 60000 mili-seconds 14713130 bytes 9216 kbps
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Creating Decode Buffers: Created
<-<- [clDecoder::Open]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
Converting to 'C:\Users\usaft\Music\Remastered\Test for Bass Behavior_new settings.m4a' encoder settings ' -cli_encoder="C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\m4a QAAC (iTunes)\qaac64.exe" -cli_cmd="--tvbr 27 - -o {qt}[outfile]{qt}" -selection="0,3,0,0"'
Using Encoder 'C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\m4a QAAC (iTunes)\qaac64.exe'
Command Line '--tvbr 27 - -o "C:\Users\usaft\Music\REMAST~1\TESTFO~1.M4A"'
Input Wave Format:Format Tag: 1 Channels: 8 Bits per Sample: 24 Samples Per Second: 48000 Bytes Per Second: 1152000 Block Align: 24 CB Size: 0
Output Wave Format:Format Tag: 1 Channels: 8 Bits per Sample: 24 Samples Per Second: 48000 Bytes Per Second: 1152000 Block Align: 24 CB Size: 0
Passing Wave Header: Yes
Using StdInput Pipe: Yes
dBpoweramp Writing Tags: Yes
<-<- [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]
OK! So I fired up Notepad as administrator and opened both the FDKAAC encoder.txt file and the QAAC encoder.txt file to see if this is something I can figure out.
*two hours later*
I dunno man. I'm pulling my hair out over this one. Probably something really dumb and basic I'm missing but yea I can't get this to work