Hi there,
Command line binaries should only do one thing, and do it well. The job of
flac (or flac.exe in windows) is to take something and compress it. Shells
implement commands to do things like searches, string matching, looping, and
stream editing. I wouldn't want to see Josh waste his time re-implementing and
having to maintain "dir", "grep", or "find" equivs in flac. These tools
already exist, and anyone who has a basic command of an **IX shell is more than
capable of one-lining most find/search/sort/exec tasks.
flac already handles input from a file, a pipe, and other input sources, and is
almost perfect as-is.
Frank
PS.. The tag line about MS vista probably comes from hotmail (I doubt xiph is
doing it). They recently switched to "hotmail live" or some BS like that. I
do not endorse MS products and have not worked for them since 2003 (the reason
for the attrition of my command line abilities).
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:48:42 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
2007/9/28, Aaron Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Under linux/bash, it would be something like....
> cd /MusicDirectory
> find . -type f -name "*.flac" -exec sh -c 'flac -t {} && flac -8V {}' \;
Wouldn't it be nice if it was something closer to:
flac --reencode --recursive -8 *.flac
I think this would be a great feature, in this way re-encoding in windows,
linux, ... can happen the same way without complicated scripts (that maybe even
don't work in windows because of crappy wildcard support, ...)
are there plans to implement this? It's a clean way to re-encode all files I
think.
Harry
Aaron
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