[flac-dev] FLAC implementation in Windows 10

[Martijn van Beurden]

Hi all,

Quite some time ago, it became clear that Windows 10 would 
feature out-of-the-box decoding support for the FLAC format. 
However, I discovered today that Windows 10 will feature FLAC 
encoding support as well, in the CD rip feature of Windows Media 
Player.

It seems that Microsoft decided to take the reference 
implementation, as the generated files have "reference libFLAC 
1.3.0 20130526" as their vendor string. However, the files 
generated are slightly larger than my FLAC 1.3.0 compile gets 
them when run with the -0 switch, and no padding is added to the 
files. This would suggest that Microsoft has 'tuned' FLAC to 
deliver files are large and slow as possible?

FLAC is not the only one though, Apple Lossless has been added 
to the mix in the same way, but (properly) creates smaller files.