gharris999;220460 Wrote: > Since flac can now directly transcode flac to flac, you should update > the convert.conf file for this: > > Code: -------------------- > > > flc flc transcode * > [flac] -c --totally-silent --compression-level-0 --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ $FILE$ > -------------------- > > > This causes just one instance of flac to be spawned instead of two, > which saves cpu resources, helps prevent global warming and other > good stuff. IIRC, this transcoding is only used when streaming from a multi-track Flac file with CUE sheet, correct?
Actually, this capability has been there since Flac 1.1.3, which came out in November 2006. A small word of caution about using it, though. I have a script that I use to re-encode Flac to Flac. When I first tried using the native Flac>Flac transcoding ability I sometimes ran into files where this method failed. The culprit was an id3v2 tag in the Flac file that this method can't deal with. The older method, decoding to WAV and re-encoding has no problem with the id3v2 tag. Of course id3v2 tags have no purpose being in a Flac file, but it seems some folks inadvertently add them, probably through a misconfigured EAC. I believe SlimServer still ships with Flac 1.1.1. I'd definitely upgrade to the latest Flac version, which should offer a pretty solid encoding/decoding performance gain. 1.2.0 is supposedly faster than 1.1.4, which was faster than 1.1.3, etc. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37562 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
