Harry,

I wrote a little command line utility for this in C# - the lib it uses is a
little overkill for the task but it does work.  As Josh noted there is no
compression gain, so I wouldn't bother unless you have FLAC's encoded with
older versions.  I also think Josh said there's a .BAT file out there that
does the same thing.

Here's the file: http://idsharp.com/download/reflac02.zip

It creates backups and shows encoder/decoder windows by default, you can
turn these off with -nb (no backups) and -nw (no windows).  Have flac.exe in
the same directory as the tool and run something like:
reflac -8 -r "c:\flac"

Which will reflac all .flac files in c:\flac, revursively (-r), with
compression level 8 (-8).  The source is available if you're interested.



On 7/25/07, Josh Coalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

--- Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi
>
> I have some questions about re-encoding existing FLAC files to FLAC
> 1.2.0.:
>
> - can older 1.1.x FLAC files be re-encoded to FLAC 1.2.0 by using the
> FLAC 1.2.0 encoder?

yes, flac can take FLAC files as input, but there is no compression
advantage going from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0

> - can FLAC files encoded with the FLAC Flake SVN encoder (or any
> other
> 'unofficial' FLAC encoder) be re-encoded by using the FLAC 1.2.0
> encoder?

yes, if they are FLAC compliant





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