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GingerTommy

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Official FLAC support in MC11
« on: September 05, 2004, 05:30:04 pm »

Are there any plans for FLAC support in MC11?
It seems odd that we can play a massive number of esoteric and propriety formats but not one that is open-source and becoming very popular.

I would love to see an official plug-in and would upgrade as soon as one was offered.


Thanks, Thomas.
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elpaolo

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2004, 05:35:19 pm »

I 2nd that motion...  FLAC is really big on a number of legal trading networks for bands that fully support bootlegging.  Not to mention livephish.com offers great flac files...
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2004, 02:53:23 pm »

And the rio Karma supports it.
I second that, although I should know better after asking the same thing for as long as I have...
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2004, 06:33:50 am »

Personally, I have tried FLAC and find it to be a pain. I like and use APE format for lossless and MP via LAME for lossy.

Hmmm, how about becoming an evangelist for APE?
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2004, 09:40:45 am »

Because FLAC is pretty much the standard among lossless codecs.  Show me a piece of hardware that supports APE.  Monkey's Audio is a great format with a cool name and great tagging support but the simple fact is FLAC is the dominant format.
There is no good reason for MC not to officially support FLAC.  

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2004, 01:15:52 pm »

It would make life easier for me too if flac was supported.....
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JimH

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2004, 01:28:15 pm »

We'll add FLAC to the supported file types for MC11.  

Oblong,
If you're reading, we'd like to package your decoder plug-in and make it available for automatic download when MC finds a flac file.  OK?

Thanks for your feedback.
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2004, 01:33:19 pm »

We'll add FLAC to the supported file types for MC11.  


Nice, thanks! That means that MC11 will understand FLAC tags and everything?
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2004, 01:34:03 pm »

We'll add FLAC to the supported file types for MC11.  


Nice, thanks! That means that MC11 will understand FLAC tags and everything?
I don't think so.  
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2004, 08:05:56 pm »

If I read this right, flac support will only be available via a plug-in. Will it ever be coded in MC?

I'm just curious...

Thanks.
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2004, 08:09:29 pm »

Flac support will always be a plug-in and won't be part of the standard install package.
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GingerTommy

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2004, 08:23:19 am »

we'd like to package your decoder plug-in and make it available for automatic download when MC finds a flac file.

I have tried Oblong's plug-in with MC11 and it did not work - has something changed that makes the plug-in function now?
If so, I'm good to go but I would appreciate a definitive answer before I go through another upgrade-downgrade cycle.
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2004, 09:37:00 am »

It's working on the latest 11 build (76). At least it is for me.
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2004, 09:37:39 am »

Sorry - I meant build .77
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2004, 05:40:42 pm »

Oblong's plugin (in_flac.dll) is the playback/tagging half of the equation. To rip to and transcode flac requires (short of monkeying with an external encoder option) enc_flac.dll, which has yet to be written.

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2004, 09:52:46 pm »

How difficult is that?
I'm just curious -I doubt I have the skills to do it but maybe someone else here can?

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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2004, 11:50:01 pm »

Help me understand - why does MC not want to officially support Flac?
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Re:Official FLAC support in MC11
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2004, 02:58:40 am »

Help me understand - why does MC not want to officially support Flac?
I would like to understand this too.

Flac support will always be a plug-in and won't be part of the standard install package.
This statement seems so definite and final. What if FLAC becomes so widespread that it cannot be ignored?
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