[Flac] Feature request FLAC

[Josh Coalson]

--- Alexander <alex1452 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 1. Add encoder options:
> a) Skip silence (leading and ending) would give the option to skip
> silence
> at the beginning and end of WAV-File. Currently I have to use an
> external
> program (WavTrim) to do the job.
> b) Convert to mono: I encode a lot of audio books from CD. While in
> reality
> they are only mono (one person reading) the are transferred as stereo
> from
> the CD. Converting them to mono greatly increases overall
> compression.
> Currently I have to use SoX for conversion which is slow and
> painfull.
> Better would be to have an option in FLAC to skip one channel and
> encode the
> other channel as mono (as seen in LAME)

both of these are non-lossless things that really
don't belong in flac.

> 2. Develop DLL for EAC
> I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for CD ripping. It would be great to
> have an
> DLL (as in Monkeysaudio) to directly rip to FLAC and not have a
> WAV-file as
> intermediate

EAC is closed source so its author has to be the
one to do it.  he did the monkey's audio one.

> 3. Album-gain based on individual replay-gain values
> I encode each file with an replay-gain value. If I want to add
> album-gain
> values with metaflac all files are analyzed again. Could the album
> gain
> value be calculated by using existing track gain values for the
> individual
> files. This operation would be much faster.

album gain can't be calculated from the individual
track gains, the whole album has to be analyzed
together.

Josh


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