Flac - Jul 2007 - Annoying semi-bug in flac

am a NEW user to flac.installed flac on eac.tried to rip a cd using eac with
flac as external compression.tried the 'wav' icontried the 'mp3'
iconboth options saves the file as 'wav'thought eac will rip the cd in
the 'flac' file format.is this a 2-step procedure?wherein eac to
'wav' and re-ripped on flac frontend?or is there a ripper with flac in
it that will rip directly to 'flac' format.please, can anyone assist.
(in group or private)thanksRudy
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Rudy,

I'd like to suggest this link:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html

and look at the section that reads "If you want to rip
CDs to FLAC.." and look at Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
under that. You will find links to a number of guides
on setting up EAC to get you a good result.

Greg M.

--- "Rudy S." <rudygs@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> am a NEW user to flac.installed flac on eac.tried to
> rip a cd using eac with flac as external
> compression.tried the 'wav' icontried the 'mp3'
> iconboth options saves the file as 'wav'thought eac
> will rip the cd in the 'flac' file format.is this a
> 2-step procedure?wherein eac to 'wav' and re-ripped
> on flac frontend?or is there a ripper with flac in
> it that will rip directly to 'flac' format.please,
> can anyone assist. (in group or private)thanksRudy
>
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> Chicktionary!??
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Dear all,

I use flac a lot and find it really useful.  However, there is one slight issue
that keeps bugging me.
When encoding/checking files with long filenames, you get output like this
(usually much longer):

30 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 30
Recitative Und sie kamen eilend.flac: ok
21 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 21 Chorus
Ehre sei Gott in der H?e.flac: ok
34 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 34
Recitative Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um.flac: testing, 29% compl
34 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 34
Recitative Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um.flac: testing, 58% compl
34 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 34
Recitative Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um.flac: testing, 88% compl
34 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 34
Recitative Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um.flac: testing, 100% comp
34 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 34
Recitative Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um.flac: ok
08 Gardiner, John Eliot Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - 8 Aria
Gro?r Herr und starker K?ig.flac: ok

Now, I realise this is a minor issue, as it does not affect speed or quality of
any of the operations,
but it is annoying.  The problem seems to be in encode.c, around line 1652.  Now
without my beloved
iomanip and iostreams, I really have no idea how to output text, so I am
probably totally wrong, but
the code seems to be just clearing the last line each time, which causes the
problem when the last
output took two lines.  What would be nice would be a little check on the
terminal width and length of the
last output to see how many lines need to be cleared.  This way, those of us
with long filenames or
narrow terminals avoid getting the screen totally swamped.

As far as I could tell from a five minute scan of the code, the encode function
is used for checking also,
so I think that the change only needs to be made once here?possibly
flac__utils_printf might need a
little change too?

Thank you for the great programme.

Nicholas

PS.  What exactly is the mechanism for removing lines of text already printed
from stderr/stdout, using
the printf-type functions?