I was going to start storing the flac version number and options
in an ENCODER meta field and with v1.1.2 if you did:
flac foo.flac 2>&1 | grep options
you could see the defaults options, in 1.2.1 it doesn't print the options
(even
if you give it a valid flac file name)
i.e. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
here was what i was going to do:
metaflac --set-tag=ENCODER="$(flac --version; flac foo.flac 2>&1 |
grep options)"
i don't know if there is any real big point in saving this info, was
just something I thought of doing (bored middle-aged techno-geek i
guess ;-)
On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 PM, Dat Head <dathead2@gmail.com> wrote:> I was going to start storing the flac version number and options > in an ENCODER meta field and with v1.1.2 if you did: > flac foo.flac 2>&1 | grep options > you could see the defaults options, in 1.2.1 it doesn't print the options (even > if you give it a valid flac file name) > > i.e. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 > > here was what i was going to do: > > metaflac --set-tag=ENCODER="$(flac --version; flac foo.flac 2>&1 | > grep options)"could i propose a new flag for next release maybe --show-defaults - or incorporate into existing flag (maybe just have --help show it?
Good suggestion, but --show-options or --show-all-options would fit the terminology better. Another good choice would be the standard -- verbose parameter. It's open source! You can add this yourself... Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:04, Dat Head wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 PM, Dat Head <dathead2@gmail.com> wrote:> I was going to start storing the flac version number and options > in an ENCODER meta field and with v1.1.2 if you did: > flac foo.flac 2>&1 | grep options > you could see the defaults options, in 1.2.1 it doesn't print the > options (even > if you give it a valid flac file name) > > i.e. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 > > here was what i was going to do: > > metaflac --set-tag=ENCODER="$(flac --version; flac foo.flac 2>&1 | > grep options)"could i propose a new flag for next release maybe --show-defaults - or incorporate into existing flag (maybe just have --help show it?
--- Dat Head <dathead2@gmail.com> wrote:> On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 PM, Dat Head <dathead2@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was going to start storing the flac version number and options > > in an ENCODER meta field and with v1.1.2 if you did: > > flac foo.flac 2>&1 | grep options > > you could see the defaults options, in 1.2.1 it doesn't print the > options (even > > if you give it a valid flac file name) > > > > i.e. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 > > > > here was what i was going to do: > > > > metaflac --set-tag=ENCODER="$(flac --version; flac foo.flac 2>&1 | > > grep options)" > > could i propose a new flag for next release maybe --show-defaults - > or incorporate into existing flag (maybe just have --help show it?I think the reason I took it out was because of the amount of code it took to show correctly. encoding has a lot of options, both default and overrideable and they interact in complex ways. lemme think how to handle it. but saving the version and the full command line is enough to figure out what options and defaults were used to encode. Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs