[Flac-dev] FlacPak

[Steve Lhomme]

Josh Green wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the information, I'm excited about working on this
> project again. I'd like to try and make a campaign out of it, make a
> nice logo and little banner icons that people can put on web sites and
> the like. Its about time proprietary formats cease to be used for
> instrument compression (especially those that don't write clients for
> other operating systems). Even windows users have experienced this with
> sfpack, since they recently stopped supporting it. Nothing more annoying
> then downloading a zip or rar instrument file only to find it has also
> been compressed with sfark or sfpack. I guess the sfark people deserve
> some credit, they have at least been promising a Linux client for a few
> years now (still no sign of it though).
> I was thinking of making FlacPak associated with flac (seems appropriate
> since flac will be the primary technology used in the format), so I was
> wondering about basing the FlacPak logo on the one found on the flac web
> site (with the green/yellow/red level meter bars). How do you feel about
> this? Any graphics I come up with in this regard I would certainly clear
> with you before using it. Thanks again.
> 	Josh Green

You might try to contact the makers of FruityLoops. Right now their 
samples packs are in Ogg format (stored in a WAV IIRC). They like open 
and free formats (they also use the LAME encoder).