Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: there's a GUI bundled with the Windows installer as well, which is called 'FLAC Frontend'. It is used a lot but it has been broken for years. (just take a look at the Sourceforge bug section) Anyway, I've already started coding a replacement with MSVC 2005. On 22-01-13 09:41, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:> Martijn van Beurden wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Lots of bugs and support requests in the sourceforge tracker are related >> to the FLAC frontend, which is bundled with FLAC for Windows with the >> installer. However, I couldn't find it in git. I really thought the FLAC >> frontend was part of the project, but it seems it is some piece of >> freeware last updated 10 years ago: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/index.htm >> >> Is this true? Anyone who knows more on this matter? Is it worth my time >> coding a replacement? > Sorry, missed this email. > > There definitely is a flac command line utility in the source > repository. It compiles from main.c in this directory: > > https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=tree;f=src/ > flac;h=913c7576bc1d2be9a95ed9719243798df11b9d8e;hb=HEAD > > Erik
Martijn van Beurden wrote:> Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: there's a GUI bundled with the Windows > installer as well, which is called 'FLAC Frontend'. It is used a lot but > it has been broken for years. (just take a look at the Sourceforge bug > section)If it was never officially part of the FLAC project and FLAC source code then bugs against it shouldn't be in FLAC's bug tracker :-). Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
On 22-01-13 10:02, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:> If it was never officially part of the FLAC project and FLAC source > code then bugs against it shouldn't be in FLAC's bug tracker :-). ErikIt depends on your definition of 'being officially part of'. This GUI was developed by a 3rd party but has always been bundled with the official FLAC tools, made available for download via the sourceforge files section and is advertised in the flac download section as being "official". I think bundling a GUI for Windows users is still desirable, because they don't have nice command line utilities like *nix users do. FLAC isn't added to a path, so even when using a proper command line, the flac command line utility can't be used properly. /Usable/ 'official' tools for encoding, decoding and testing FLAC files for this (fairly large) group of users are necessary just like *nix-users have the official command line tools. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20130122/5737f22c/attachment.htm