On 2007-09-19, Stephen wrote: > > I think that what I actually want is for the operating systems to > > use .flac nstead. Similar to what Mac OS X does with .aiff. This should > > probably have been posted in the advocacy emailing list instead. > > This is an interesting idea. There already is a FUSE filesystem > called mp3fs (http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/) which can dynamically > transcode files from FLAC to MP3. Perhaps someone should write flacfs? > > The challenge for using FLAC would be to determine/predict/estimate > the FLAC file size in advance. Technical difficulties aside, I think > the idea of popping in a CD and having the files show up as FLAC > would be an appealing one to users.
Apples does it with .aiff. So it is not impossible. I guess the tracks would not have any compression for this process to be as smooth as possible. (Stephen, I keep bumping into your name everywhere since I last emailed you last time. I think the web is really getting smaller.) -- Daniel Aleksandersen _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
