[Flac] merging flac files

[Brian Willoughby]

Frans,

You are basically talking about common audio processing on flac files.  If you  
are not a developer, then the easiest way to do this is to decompress the flac  
to aiff or wav, do your append and/or gain changes, then recompress the  
resulting file(s) to flac.  The only disadvantage here is the time to  
decode/encode, plus the disk space to hold the uncompressed files.

However, if you are a developer, the flac library allows direct access to the  
audio from flac files.  It should be easy to write a program which appends or  
gain changes flac files by processing the audio directly.  You still have  
decode and encode time, but it happens in parallel with the processing, so the  
total time should be much quicker than above.  You also use far less disk  
space.

Personally, I would like to be able to burn flac files to CD-R without  
decompressing them and using an aiff/wav burner...

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:27:29 +0200
From: Frans Haarman <frans at haarman.com>
To: flac at xiph.org
Subject: [Flac] merging flac files

Hi!

I was hoping there was a tool which would let me do something like:
#flax -o existing.flac --append mytune.flac

To merge the 2 files!


Also; is it possible to change the velocity/gain of a flac track ? I
would love to know how!

Regards,
Frans