I've just looked at the lame source of version 3.97, and I did not find any indication that this could possibly work in 3.97. there is a non- installed frontend 'misc/abx' in the source tree that seems to call flac and pipe it into lame, but lame itself does not have flac support.
** Changed in: lame (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Lame 3.98.2 has lost FLAC support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576425 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs