Hi, I'm using the FLAC command line tool to encode my WAV files in some directory to FLAC files. Now I noticed sometimes the output of the tool is mostly like this:
flac -V --best "14 The Hose - Time Warp (Old Skull Mix).wav" flac 1.1.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. 14 The Hose - Time Warp (Old Skull Mix).wav: 100% complete, ratio=0,61814 The Ho se - Time Warp (Old Skull Mix).wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'LIST' 14 The Hose - Time Warp (Old Skull Mix).wav: Verify OK, wrote 37142516 bytes, ra tio=0,617 But, sometimes the output is flooding the whole screen and it repeats again and again printing the same line but just printing another % of completion, like this: flac -V --best "12 Mario Lopez vs Red Sector - Into my Brain (Plug ' n' play club edit).wav" flac 1.1.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. 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I was wondering why the output of the command line tool FLAC sometimes prints the same line again and again and sometimes it does not? What is the reason for this? I wanted to let the tool encode a whole directory of files and afterwards manually check the "verify OK" status for each file. But however, when the tool floods the whole screen on some files (like the example above), in Microsoft Windows you can't scroll to the beginning of the output anymore in a command prompt window so you can't see the output of previous files. Maybe somebody has a solution for this? I don't want to use cygwin. I also tried this statement to write the output to a file: for %1 in (*.wav) do flac -V --best "%1" > output.txt but it seems this doesn't work and the file output.txt stays empty :( thanks in advance!
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