[Flac-dev] new cmd-line, decoding troubles

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:42:07PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:13:35PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> 
> > I tried to use new command-line behavior.
> > 
> > When i do 'flac -d -c -fb foo.flac', it gives to stdout wav data instead of
> > big endian raw data as i expected, but 'flac -d -fr -fb -c' works fine. I
> > think -d -fb should implied -fr.
> > 
> > And when i give it multiple files like 'flac -d -c -fr -fb foo1.flac
> > foo2.flac', it decode only first file.
> 
> The -c option is supposed to send output to stdout, yes?  Then the logical
> behavior would be to decode and concatenate each of the files.  But is this
> really useful with audio data?  This would only work for raw format output, and
> all of the files would have to have the same sample rate, size, sign and
> channels (byte order could be converted on the fly, I suppose).

Yes, this is really usefull for me, i'm working only with raw data. I know, i
can do (for i in *.flac;do flac -c -fr -fb -d "$i";done) | ...  But gzip can
do this, so why flac shouldn't?

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Miroslav Lichvar
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