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Title: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?(it does now with xACT!)
Post by: Brian on July 27, 2005, 04:10:55 PM
SSIA

having some problems here archiving my 10k Lakes sets.  thanks!


edit: see scott's post below :)
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: MattD on July 27, 2005, 04:13:35 PM
Use the --lax option.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#flac_options_lax
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: Brian on July 27, 2005, 04:14:33 PM
Quote from: MattD on July 27, 2005, 04:13:35 PM
Use the --lax option.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#flac_options_lax

+ .... i'll try that out!
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: Brian on July 27, 2005, 04:24:13 PM
also....i'm on a mac using xACT.  i can't find a way to use that option with this particular program. i'm going to download all the other mac software for FLAC now.
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: MattD on July 27, 2005, 05:04:44 PM
By the way, I didn't specify, but I don't think this can be done in the frontend. You might have to revert to the command line encoder. MikeW, if you read this, can you automatically revert to --lax if the samplerate of the input files is non-standard?

In OSX, give Scott Brown a holler. I bet he can build that into xACT without too much trouble.
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: noahbickart on July 27, 2005, 11:34:24 PM
Yes, definately send Scott Brown an e-mail, he is a nice guy and very willing to help inprove his stuff.

Also good for you for using the 88.2kHz setting. In my opinion this gives almost all of the gains of 96kHz, but alows for a pristine sample rate conversion to 44.1 kHz, since all those values are already present.

-Noah
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: chase on July 28, 2005, 01:44:34 AM
in the meantime you could open a terminal window, navigate to the folder where the .wavs are and use the following command:

% flac -# --lax *.wav

where # is the level of compression (0-8)
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: scb on July 28, 2005, 08:25:38 AM
Quote from: Brian Sax on July 27, 2005, 04:24:13 PM
also....i'm on a mac using xACT.  i can't find a way to use that option with this particular program. i'm going to download all the other mac software for FLAC now.


the other mac software won't do it.  xACT doesn't do it at the moment either.  i meant to put the lax option in a while ago but simply forgot. 

i suppose i could whip up a quick fix after work today that'd allow you to do it from xACT
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: Brian on July 28, 2005, 12:38:13 PM
Quote from: scott brown on July 28, 2005, 08:25:38 AM
Quote from: Brian Sax on July 27, 2005, 04:24:13 PM
also....i'm on a mac using xACT. i can't find a way to use that option with this particular program. i'm going to download all the other mac software for FLAC now.


the other mac software won't do it. xACT doesn't do it at the moment either. i meant to put the lax option in a while ago but simply forgot.

i suppose i could whip up a quick fix after work today that'd allow you to do it from xACT


scott - that would be huge....many thanks in advance for this!

chase - thanks for the tip.  I'll try that when i get home from work in the meantime.

thanks a lot guys for all the help. you RAWK \m/
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: scb on July 28, 2005, 07:51:23 PM
try:

http://xact.fellowtraveler.org/xACT.zip


hacked up fix.  i'll clean it up later
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: Brian on July 28, 2005, 07:52:58 PM
right on!  i'll give it a try soon when i start mastering my mofro recording. 
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?
Post by: Brian on July 28, 2005, 08:22:16 PM
it's encoding right now as i type :)

i'll report back after i've transferred the data to another machine and verified the data.
Title: Re: will FLAC not encode 24/88.2 wav files?(it does now with xACT!)
Post by: Brian on July 28, 2005, 08:58:31 PM
 :coolguy: :bigsmile: