Hello all, Is anyone here potentially up to the task of adding support for CAF (the CoreAudio Format) into the flac command-line? This would present minimal difficulty under OSX, due to the presence of the CoreAudio API, but the real challenge would be to support CAF on Unix and Windows - everywhere that flac is now available.
Although the format is rather unknown, there are some very specific advantages to adding CAF support. I have the Sound Devices 702 recorder, which supports FLAC. I've already made some recordings that are so long that they cannot be uncompressed from FLAC to WAV or AIFF because they would exceed 4 GB - the maximum file size for those formats. CAF does not have the same 4 GB limitations. Of course, in instances where there is a natural break in a recording, the flac command-line allows decompression ending at a specific time and/or starting at a specific time - meaning that you can create a 4 GB or smaller WAV/AIFF by only extracting a subset. However, there are inevitably situations where unbroken recordings can be made in FLAC format which are too big to fit into legacy formats. I believe that Apple has documented the CAF details sufficiently for a developer to support the format without direct use of Apple Mac OS X API. I scanned the document once, and it seems reasonably straight- forward. I'd just on this myself, but I don't have time at the moment. While I might eventually be able to get around to it, I though it prudent to suggest the feature to the FLAC Developer community at least in case someone else has time to implement this on a shorter time frame. I'm sure it's something that would be appreciated by the unique community of people who use FLAC and still need the ability to convert to other formats for processing. I guess this would still limit the usability to Logic Studio Pro, at least until more companies begin supporting CAF in their audio software. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev