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[GingerTommy]

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.

[elpaolo]

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...

[urlwolf]

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...

[GHammer]

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?

[iCamp]

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.  

[Noman]

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

[JimH]

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.

[urlwolf]

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

Nice, thanks! That means that MC11 will understand FLAC tags and everything?

[JimH]

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.  

[lpr]

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.

[JimH]

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

[GingerTommy]

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.

[Diverdown1964]

It's working on the latest 11 build (76). At least it is for me.

[Diverdown1964]

Sorry - I meant build .77

[xen-uno]

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.

10^-27

[iCamp]

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

[MB]

Help me understand - why does MC not want to officially support Flac?

[GingerTommy]

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?