[Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Mon Mar 7 12:14:19 PST 2011


Brian Willoughby wrote:

> 
> On Mar 6, 2011, at 01:22, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Brian Willoughby wrote:
> >> Hopefully, libsndfile no longer uses the incorrect 0x7FFF (32767)
> >> factor for float to 16-bit integer conversions, because that would
> >> make it unacceptable for lossless file conversions.
> >
> > That is a statement of opinion rather than fact but I won't go into
> > that here.
> 
> 
> It is a statement of mathematical fact, not opinion.

There are at least three different suboptimal solutions to this
problem. The FAQ here:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/FAQ.html#Q010

explains my choice of sub-optimal solutin.

That FAQ question also provides two ways of using libsndfile that 
avoid all suboptimal solutions.

Erik
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