[Flac] Re: flac default options no longer printed

[Dat Head]

On Dec 31, 2007 6:30 PM, Josh Coalson <xflac at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Dat Head <dathead2 at gmail.com> 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?
>
> I think the reason I took it out was because of the amount of code
> it took to show correctly.  encoding has a lot of options, both
> default and overrideable and they interact in complex ways.
>
> lemme think how to handle it.  but saving the version and the full
> command line is enough to figure out what options and defaults were
> used to encode.

don't worry about it too much, i'm just storing the version number
now - as i mentioned i doubt i'll ever even use it, but just in case
something ever comes up would be nice to know vers+options.

maybe this came to mind when lately i've been getting small
between track audible gaps (not in the actual files) when using
both winamp and xmms and have been wondering if it is
from ones that are encoded with level 8 (but have no way
of knowing right?) -

if i replay same transition again it is ok, so
another trick i was considering was maybe doing a unix "dd"
of the first 100 bytes of each file before i send them to the
player so that they have a chance of being in file cache when
track transition occurs (think that could help or any other ideas?)