[Flac-dev] Support .cda as input files

[Stephen F. Booth]

> I think that what I actually want is for the operating systems to  
> use .flac
> instead. Similar to what Mac OS X does with .aiff. This should  
> probably
> have been posted in the advocacy emailing list instead.

This is an interesting idea.  There already is a FUSE filesystem  
called mp3fs (http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/) which can dynamically  
transcode files from FLAC to MP3.  Perhaps someone should write flacfs?

The challenge for using FLAC would be to determine/predict/estimate  
the FLAC file size in advance.  Technical difficulties aside, I think  
the idea of popping in a CD and having the files show up as FLAC  
would be an appealing one to users.

I suppose another alternative would be to hack on cddafs or one of  
its cousins to add FLAC support.

Stephen