Yes, that was even more sad. Do you know if any of the developers wishes to continue the project?
- Jørgen. On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:56 PM, David Richards wrote: > Its really sad to hear thats happening but even more sad is the fact > that flac is becoming a very common format for music on the interweb > whilst at the same time the development has ceased. I've found some > severe issues with OggFLAC that essentially make it a useless format > for streaming, no one cared. > > -David > Listener of many flacs > > > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Jørgen Vigdal <jor...@anion.no> wrote: >> Hi folks! >> Due to the fact that more and more users increasingly use MP3 < 320kbps as >> their source for encoding music, and publish it as flac files, I suggest >> that something is done in the flac encoder to possible avoid this. >> My idea is kinda easy/stupid, but might work; >> Implement a function that use a FFT to check if the input has frequencies > >> 16kHz, and informs the user that the file would not be encoded unless a >> -force parameter is specified (or at least ask the user if he or she want to >> do this :) ) >> Hopefully, this will reduce the number of files released on the internet, >> re-encoded from a lossy file format. Unfortunately, many users avoid using >> flac, because they think the encoder is lossy due to the poor sound on some >> files released. >> Thanks in advance. >> Sincerely, >> Jørgen Vigdal >> jor...@anion.no >> Phone: +47 91320132 >> jorgenvigdal.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Flac-dev mailing list >> Flac-dev@xiph.org >> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
