[Flac] Efficiency

2007-04-02 Thread Christopher Brown
Hi list users, Is there a comparison somewhere of the efficiency of decoding flac files, with respect to some benchmark related to cpu processing? As compared to, say, ape files? I ask because I have recently switched my entire archive from ape to flac. I have an old 400 mhz laptop in my

Re: [Flac] Efficiency

2007-04-03 Thread Christopher Brown
Hi Gregory, GM Flac decode is VERY fast: GM http://web.inter.nl.net/users/hvdh/lossless/lossless.htm Thank you for the link. Although I switched to flac for other reasons, these data appear to support my switch, given the hardware limitations I have. As I mentioned, I use a 400 mhz laptop in

[Flac] metaflac

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Brown
Hi List, I am writing an audio player that exclusively plays FLAC sound files, with CUE sheets. It is written in Python, so it is cross-platform, and it is working very well so far. The soundfile IO is handled by the Audiere library. For metadata (aside from the CUE sheet), I make system calls to

Re: [Flac] Players with embedded cuesheet support

2008-11-09 Thread Christopher Brown
Hi Helge, which players for linux/x86 support flac with embedded cuesheet? Is there a list somewhere? I don't know of a list, but you can try this one that I wrote: http://www.audioplayer51.org ___ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org

Re: [Flac] Playing flac files from external hard drive

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher Brown
I use an old laptop running linux. Works great, and it is a very inexpensive solution. On Wednesday 07 July 2010 13:00:28 ABRAHAM NAIM wrote: Many thanks for this! I was looking for an inexpensive solution, and a Nokia tablet is too expensive for me. I was hoping for a cheap mp3 player with