[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: A suggestion for flac transcoding in the trunk..

[sbjaerum]

gharris999;159327 Wrote: 
> The new version of flac, 1.1.3, has the ability to decode a flac to a
> flac in one pass.  For flac transcoding (i.e. for multiple track flac
> files with cuesheets) this means that we can go from 3 spawned
> processes (on windows: cmd.exe, flac.exe | flac.exe) to just one.  If
> you install the binaries for flac 1.1.3 to the appropriate folders
> under server/Bin and then modify convert.conf, you can see that it
> works:
> 
> > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > 
  > flc flc transcode *
  > 	[flac] -c --totally-silent --compression-level-0 --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ $FILE$ 
  > 
--------------------
> > 
> 
> I haven't tested this on my linux slimserver yet, but with windows,
> it works just fine, with no problems with gapless playback.  Who
> knows, this might fix bug 4318:
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4318

Works for me as well.
Because of this simplification, the added PICTURE capabilities, and
other improvements, SD should consider to update the flac binaries to
1.1.3 together with gharris99 suggested change to convert.conf

Steinar


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