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

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Wed May 9 14:42:42 PDT 2001


> > > 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?
> 
ok, this was caused by a bug in decode.c where it would close stdout
after each file.  I fixed it and checked it in.

Josh


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