If we were to switch to another codec, IMO it should be FLAC. FLAC
is the Free Lossless Audio Codec with several advantages over SHN.
FLAC has been on the open source track from the start. As a result
it already has windows and unix GUI support. Not only that, but
it already has winamp and xmms plugins available, and already has
hardware support. FLAC also contains internal CRCs and MD5s and is
seekable and streamable by default. It also uses the ubiquitous ID3
tag. Judging from the FLAC comparison page, monkey's is usually about
2% smaller than FLAC(which is about 3% smaller than shn btw) That's
about 20MB on a 1GB show, which granted, is nothing to sneeze at.
But when you look at the features and flexibilty it has due to being a GPL'd
project FLAC seems to me to be the best long term solution.
-Hatta
Relevent URLs:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html
http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htm (windows flac frontend)
http://www.nostatic.org/grip/ (grip is a general ripper/encoder front end for unix)
B&P: One for Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer 2/13/2001 1 SHN disk
Anyone have more of these guys? I'd love to trade.
http://db.etree.org/Hatta0
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:15:17 -0000
"DavidJaymz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to through another wrench in the works but, what do people think of
> monkeys audio...
> The author has just released the source code so it should be getting ported
> over to Max and Linux soon(ish) when this happens will etree begin using it
> as standard... Monkeys can generate and read shn's as well so we wouldn't
> have to convert all the discs we have... But I've been lead to believe that
> ape is better compression and with the use of an internal checksum no more
> md5's are needed...
> What are peoples views? Moderators?
>
> DavidJaymz
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