--- Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Add encoder options: > a) Skip silence (leading and ending) would give the option to skip > silence > at the beginning and end of WAV-File. Currently I have to use an > external > program (WavTrim) to do the job. > b) Convert to mono: I encode a lot of audio books from CD. While in > reality > they are only mono (one person reading) the are transferred as stereo > from > the CD. Converting them to mono greatly increases overall > compression. > Currently I have to use SoX for conversion which is slow and > painfull. > Better would be to have an option in FLAC to skip one channel and > encode the > other channel as mono (as seen in LAME)
both of these are non-lossless things that really don't belong in flac. > 2. Develop DLL for EAC > I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for CD ripping. It would be great to > have an > DLL (as in Monkeysaudio) to directly rip to FLAC and not have a > WAV-file as > intermediate EAC is closed source so its author has to be the one to do it. he did the monkey's audio one. > 3. Album-gain based on individual replay-gain values > I encode each file with an replay-gain value. If I want to add > album-gain > values with metaflac all files are analyzed again. Could the album > gain > value be calculated by using existing track gain values for the > individual > files. This operation would be much faster. album gain can't be calculated from the individual track gains, the whole album has to be analyzed together. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
