Re: [Audacity-devel] export multiple FLAC?

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:07 +0200, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone is working on exporting FLAC files from
> Audacity and this also in combination with the "export multiple"
> option (which currently can be used to export multiple WAV/MP3s based
> on labels).
> 
> If nobody is working on this at the moment, how difficult would it be
> to do this, and would you accept a patch that implements this?
A couple of points I missed due to being away for a while
* If you build audacity with current libsndfile (about 1.0.12 or newer),
then you can select FLAC as the "uncompressed export format" in the
preferences, and then all the "Export as WAV" options become "Export as
FLAC", and you get FLAC files out. Confusingly, you have to set the data
format as "16 bit PCM" or "24bit PCM" with FLAC headers rather than
selecting FLAC as the data type, but this is down to the libsndfile
implementation - we just query the library and back comes a list of
formats.
* The current audacity FLAC importer is broken - if you import a
non-16bit FLAC file you get static. Most of mine are 24bit live
archives, so this makes it pretty much useless to me. I disable the
built-in FLAC support and rely on libsndfile to read FLAC as well, which
works fine for all bit depths of FLAC file.
* As far as patches go it is mostly down to prodding people to get them
accepted - even if they get a bugzilla bug, things tend to get forgotten
if no-one takes ownership and prods people to get them done.

So any contributions are very welcome, please don't be offended if they
get lost under a tide of messages and you have to prod us a bit to get
them accepted into CVS.

Richard Ash