[Flac-dev] FlacPak

[tech at bishop.dhs.org]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Josh Green wrote:
> > Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> I've thought of doing lossy compression before on instruments, but I'd
> much rather stick to lossless, at least for now. There are issues to be
> sorted out when doing lossy compression, specifically in regards to loop
> points. It would be nice to get the nice compression ratios that Ogg has
> to offer, but in the world of high quality instruments, I don't think it
> makes as much sense. I'll leave some expansion to allow for something
> like this to be implemented in the future, though. Cheers.
> 	Josh Green

Actually, if you look closer, he said that the audio format was WAV (not
vorbis), but the container was ogg.  And, as you probably know, there is
support to have FLAC in an ogg container.  So it would definetly make
sense to talk to them about your project.

Just to clarify :-)

D.A.Bishop