[Flac] Re: flac default options no longer printed

[Brian Willoughby]

Good suggestion, but --show-options or --show-all-options would fit  
the terminology better.  Another good choice would be the standard -- 
verbose parameter.

It's open source!  You can add this yourself...

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:04, Dat Head wrote:
On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 PM, Dat Head <dathead2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to start storing the flac version number and options
> in an ENCODER meta field and with v1.1.2 if you did:
>     flac foo.flac 2>&1 | grep options
> you could see the defaults options, in 1.2.1 it doesn't print the  
> options (even
> if you give it a valid flac file name)
>
> i.e. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
>
> here was what i was going to do:
>
> metaflac --set-tag=ENCODER="$(flac --version; flac foo.flac 2>&1 |
> grep options)"

could i propose a new flag for next release maybe --show-defaults - or
incorporate into existing flag (maybe just
have --help show it?