[Flac-dev] floating point

[Josh Coalson]

--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Didier Dambrin <didid at skynet.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I've tried to find info about unofficial 32bit 
> float support in FLAC, and found several conversations.
> 
> Most of them were talking about a 24bit limit, 
> but from the manual I guess that this limitation is gone,
> as it supports up to  32bit integer.
>  
> So my question is, what would be the best way, or 
> what is a common way to FLAC-encode floating point
> audio?

it's unlikely flac will ever support floating-point samples natively.  the main application for it is audio engineering, which demands easy editing and very high speed for both encoding and decoding above everything else.

flac is designed as a consumer audio format.  it trades ease of editing for a featureful, robust transport layer more suited for playback, and encoding speed for more compression and faster decompression.