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To answer the original question, I do not believe that there is.<br><br>What may be an eloquent solution to this problem is to start a collection of "Flac tools" on sourceforge. These could be command line or gui utilitis, and would reside in a single permanent location. This way we could have actual sh/bat files with proper error checking and such rather than one liners. Back in my windows days, it would take me all of 5-10 minutes to wrap a command line (like the ms example I came up with from /? instructions only) in a VB6 gui app. I am certain that someone with similar new age .net skills probably reads the list, and might not mind doing the same.<br><br>As for the scripting skill level thing, I did not mean to suggest that computer users would be capable of such a feat. By "basic command of a **IX shell" I meant that they were on the second semester of a scripting 101 course or had completed "scripting for dummies". Once you learn what tools are available (how to loop/iterate, how to nest commands, etc) the rest is just chaining the tools together in a linear fashion to achieve the desired result.<br><br>Someone put together a tools page, maybe split out flacGUI from the core flac project, and we'll all do our best to extend the tools to make common tasks easier for the users.<br><br>Frank<br><br>> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:06:03 +0200<br>> From: tranzedude@gmail.com<br>> To: lists@whitehouse.org.nz<br>> Subject: Re: [flac] re-encode tool win32<br>> CC: russofris@hotmail.com; flac@xiph.org<br>> <br>> but to return to my original question: is there a graphical tool to<br>> re-encode directories (and subdir's inside of them) for win32?<br>> <br>> because otherwise windows are still 'stuck' when they want to do that.<br>> I agree entering such long command line strings is not user friendly,<br>> so i'm looking for a tool if this exists<br>> <br>> thx for your attention<br>> <br>> 2007/9/29, Aaron Whitehouse <lists@whitehouse.org.nz>:<br>> > > anyone who has a basic command of an **IX shell is more<br>> > > than capable of one-lining most find/search/sort/exec tasks.<br>> ><br>> > That is overstating things a little. I have been using Linux for about<br>> > five years and I wouldn't have come up with that command on my own.<br>> ><br>> > That said, I agree that Josh is better to spend his time writing the<br>> > encoder (which he does incredibly well). I guess that people who want<br>> > to do this will find it out eventually :). With any luck, third party<br>> > tools will step in to provide this kind of functionality, in a<br>> > user-friendly manner, without distracting Josh. The same argument<br>> > could be said for the windows FLAC gui - is it just a "distraction"<br>> > from the core job of upgrading the encoder?<br>> ><br>> > To be fair, if it is really that simple, someone that isn't up to<br>> > working on the encoder could add this feature and Josh wouldn't be<br>> > distracted at all. There would be no need to "re-implement or maintain<br>> > "dir", "grep", or "find" equivs in flac" as they could depend on the<br>> > existing tools. It would not be desirable for the base Flac libraries<br>> > to depend on these things, however, so I agree that it probably<br>> > belongs somewhere else.<br>> ><br>> > This is all just rambling, really. I now have the answer and can<br>> > happily use it. I just get annoyed when people tell me that your<br>> > average simple user could come up with a long command string when, in<br>> > actual fact, the majority of computer users don't ever see a command<br>> > line.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for your help,<br>> ><br>> > Aaron<br>> ><br><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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