Hi All, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:04:59PM -0700, Stephen F. Booth wrote: >> I think that what I actually want is for the operating systems to use >> .flac >> instead. Similar to what Mac OS X does with .aiff. This should probably >> have been posted in the advocacy emailing list instead. > > This is an interesting idea. There already is a FUSE filesystem called > mp3fs (http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/) which can dynamically transcode files > from FLAC to MP3. Perhaps someone should write flacfs?
Hmm, that would be cool. Then you could mount mp3fs over the top of it! > The challenge for using FLAC would be to determine/predict/estimate the > FLAC file size in advance. Technical difficulties aside, I think the idea > of popping in a CD and having the files show up as FLAC would be an > appealing one to users. Yes, this is a challenge. I am the author of mp3fs, and a major challenge was to predict final file size accurately. This is why mp3fs only supports CBR mp3 and not VBR mp3 or ogg (which is inherently VBR). Is there a 'CBR' flac encoding mechanism? > I suppose another alternative would be to hack on cddafs or one of its > cousins to add FLAC support. I hadn't heard of cddafs before, looks kinda neat. Unfortunately, it looks like a kernel-mode filesystem which would be impossible to hack flac support into (unless you want to port flac into kernel space :)) FUSE filesystems are much easier as you can use userspace libs. Dave _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev