[flac] re-encode tool win32

[Frank Russo]

Hi there,

Command line binaries should only do one thing, and do it well.  The job of flac (or flac.exe in windows) is to take something and compress it.  Shells implement commands to do things like searches, string matching, looping, and stream editing.  I wouldn't want to see Josh waste his time re-implementing and having to maintain "dir", "grep", or "find" equivs in flac.  These tools already exist, and anyone who has a basic command of an **IX shell is more than capable of one-lining most find/search/sort/exec tasks.

flac already handles input from a file, a pipe, and other input sources, and is almost perfect as-is.

Frank

PS..  The tag line about MS vista probably comes from hotmail (I doubt xiph is doing it).  They recently switched to "hotmail live" or some BS like that.  I do not endorse MS products and have not worked for them since 2003 (the reason for the attrition of my command line abilities).

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:48:42 +0200
From: tranzedude at gmail.com
To: lists at whitehouse.org.nz
Subject: Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32
CC: russofris at hotmail.com; flac at xiph.org



2007/9/28, Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.org.nz>:
>  Under linux/bash, it would be something like....
> cd /MusicDirectory
> find . -type f -name "*.flac"  -exec sh -c 'flac -t {} && flac -8V {}' \;

Wouldn't it be nice if it was something closer to:

flac --reencode --recursive -8 *.flac

I think this would be a great feature, in this way re-encoding in windows, linux, ... can happen the same way without complicated scripts (that maybe even don't work in windows because of crappy wildcard support, ...)

are there plans to implement this? It's a clean way to re-encode all files I think.

Harry


Aaron



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