RE: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread Frank Russo
To answer the original question, I do not believe that there is. What may be an eloquent solution to this problem is to start a collection of "Flac tools" on sourceforge. These could be command line or gui utilitis, and would reside in a single permanent location. This way we could have actua

Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> anyone who has a basic command of an **IX shell is more > than capable of one-lining most find/search/sort/exec tasks. That is overstating things a little. I have been using Linux for about five years and I wouldn't have come up with that command on my own. That said, I agree that Josh is bette

Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread Josh Coalson
--- Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread Harry Sack
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 *.f

RE: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread Frank Russo
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

Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32

2007-09-28 Thread rappard
does somebody know a re-encode tool for win32? So it must have a GUI to make a list of FLAC files that need to be re-encoded to a newer flac version and it must automatically re-encode the whole list of files (so like the flac frontend but with re-encode support). I wouldn't mind one for Linux,