[flac] re-encode tool win32

Frank Russo
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:03:39 -0000

Hi there,

Command line binaries should only do one thing, and do it well.  The job of flac
(or flac.exe in windows) is to take something and compress it.  Shells implement
commands to do things like searches, string matching, looping, and stream
editing.  I wouldn't want to see Josh waste his time re-implementing and
having to maintain "dir", "grep", or "find" equivs
in flac.  These tools already exist, and anyone who has a basic command of an
**IX shell is more than capable of one-lining most find/search/sort/exec tasks.

flac already handles input from a file, a pipe, and other input sources, and is
almost perfect as-is.

Frank

PS..  The tag line about MS vista probably comes from hotmail (I doubt xiph is
doing it).  They recently switched to "hotmail live" or some BS like
that.  I do not endorse MS products and have not worked for them since 2003 (the
reason for the attrition of my command line abilities).

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:48:42 +0200
From: tranzedude@gmail.com
To: lists@whitehouse.org.nz
Subject: Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32
CC: russofris@hotmail.com; flac@xiph.org



2007/9/28, Aaron Whitehouse
<lists@whitehouse.org.nz>:
>  Under linux/bash, it would be something like....
> cd /MusicDirectory
> find . -type f -name "*.flac"  -exec sh -c 'flac -t {}
&& flac -8V {}' \;

Wouldn't it be nice if it was something closer to:

flac --reencode --recursive -8 *.flac

I think this would be a great feature, in this way re-encoding in windows,
linux, ... can happen the same way without complicated scripts (that maybe even
don't work in windows because of crappy wildcard support, ...)

are there plans to implement this? It's a clean way to re-encode all files I
think.

Harry


Aaron



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