What Brian Willoughby means is that even though the future is uncertain, you may trust FLAC. The format is mature enough so that you won't see major changes preventing playback of files encoded by older encoders, but even if that comes to happen, the playback libraries on most software will be backwards-compatible, and FLAC is lossless meaning that you may convert FLAC 1.1.4 to a possible FLAC 3 without problems. Hope that helps, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves
2007/4/1, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves <justivo@gmail.com>:> > What Brian Willoughby means is that even though the future is > uncertain, you may trust FLAC. The format is mature enough so that > you won't see major changes preventing playback of files encoded by > older encoders, but even if that comes to happen, the playback > libraries on most software will be backwards-compatible, and FLAC is > lossless meaning that you may convert FLAC 1.1.4 to a possible FLAC 3 > without problems.Ok, I see. thanks for the answer Is it still possible to decode FLAC files, encoded with the very first FLAC encoder, with FLAC 1.1.4? If the answer is true (I have never tested it), then I'm pretty sure the future will bring no surprises. Hope that helps,> Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20070401/68748da9/attachment.htm
On 4/1/07, Harry Sack <tranzedude@gmail.com> wrote:> Is it still possible to decode FLAC files, encoded with the very first FLAC > encoder, with FLAC 1.1.4? If the answer is true (I have never tested it), > then I'm pretty sure the future will bring no surprises.Most players should have no problems working with files encoded in early/initial encoders. Considering the age of FLAC and its adoption rate and other variables I have to say "most players", and not "all players". Considering the implementation and the format are open specs, anyone could create a converter of earlier files to newer versions if the issue ever comes to happen. Hope that helps, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves
--- Harry Sack <tranzedude@gmail.com> wrote:> Ok, I see. thanks for the answer > Is it still possible to decode FLAC files, encoded with the very > first FLAC > encoder, with FLAC 1.1.4? If the answer is true (I have never tested > it), then I'm pretty sure the future will bring no surprises.yep, FLAC is backwards compatible all the way back to the beginning, and plans are to stay that way. Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather