[Flac-dev] command-line: AIFF writer advice

Matt Zimmerman
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:45:34 -0000

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:04:38PM -0500, Brady Patterson wrote:

> The patch I submitted only reads AIFF files.  I'm about to start the
patch to
> write AIFF files.
>
> To do so, we need a command-line option to specify AIFF.  My inclination is
to
> add an option:
>
>   -ff { raw | wav | aif }
>
> In some sense, "-ff" is silly since it probably stands for
"format format".
> Still, I think it's better than just "-f", since the first
"f" specifies the
> entire format option group.
>
> Does this seem reasonable?
>
> Initially, the default will still always be wav.  OSX users are likely to
want
> AIFF as the default, though, so eventually I'll add a configuration
option to
> set the default format for decompression.

A more flexible approach might be to use libaudiofile or a similar facility,
so that multiple input formats can be automatically recognized, and future
formats supported in a generalized way.

I have meant to write this support for some time, but have not had the
opportunity.  It would also be nice to have a simple command-line player
using libao (a la ogg123).

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 - mdz