John33, does your compile of flac 1.1.3 over at Rarewares take care of the dot/comma bug?

Hi John33

I had just finished testing your first compile, as i suspected that it included the comma bug-fix, since it was compiled on the 8th January and the comma bug-fix submitted to CVS on the 5th January, but as you posted previously(and my test showed) it didn't. Anyway, i have just finished testing this new compile and it works perfectly and i got 0.5% better compression ratio on the default -5 setting. Also, could you please tell me if you have just included the single fix for the comma bug to the v1.1.3 release sources, or if you have done a compile of the newest CVS snapshot, so that the bug that would truncate output files after the first error when doing FLAC to FLAC transcoding of corrupt FLAC's also would be gone ?

Note: to others that want's to use this compile, then you will need to also download the libmmd.dll file, which also can be downloaded from rarewares.

Many thank's John33 for your continued efforts of making compiles available to us, it's much appreciated 

Thank's in advance.


CU, Martin.

I included the single fix. However, if the consensus is that I should use the current CVS, I can do that easily enough. Is that safe, Josh?

BTW, thanks for the feedback on the compile.

I included the single fix. However, if the consensus is that I should use the current CVS, I can do that easily enough. Is that safe, Josh?

Do you know why the optimized(ICL9.1-SSE2) flac.exe builds gives different filesizes ?

It's because of different floating point calculations reordering dony by compilers, which are producing slightly different results. Floating point only has a limited precision, and there is often some approximations in the result compared to the theorical formal result.

Many thank's for this new release which IMHO is just downright awesome and actually made me switch from WavPack to FLAC

What does FLAC currently have that WavPack doesn't ?

what FLAC features made you switch ?

Sorry, for repeating my question, but just in case that it was missed the first time around

@Josh Coalson

Would you please consider being so kind as to add wildcard support to flac.exe and metaflac.exe in a new version sometime ?

I feel your pain Martin!  this has come up before, have you seen the other discussions on it?  I'm hesitant to add non-portable stuff to fix a bug in the windows shell that has been there for like 20+ years.  some of the easy workarounds are too dangerous to be acceptable:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-de...une/000397.html

Quote from: Tung on 2006-12-05 22:10:06

What's the simplest way to re-encode FLAC files with 1.1.3? I'm a windows user, and FLAC Frontend will not take FLAC as input to be encoded to FLAC. I want to keep all tags, etc, just encode with newer FLAC. (also, i'm not a command line master, so..)

Cut and paste the following script (author unknown to me) into a text editor and name it something like "convert.cmd". Put in in the root of your flac directory. Doubleclick. And do something great of your day while reencoding.

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@echo off
set encoder="C:\Program\Sound\Coding\Flac\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.flac) do %encoder% -8 -V -f -A "tukey(0,5)" "%%f")

Note: Of course you change the directory path of flac.exe to your specific.
Script takes care of the dot/comma bug.

EDIT: And it preserves the old tags.

Tested that script, works like a charm. Many thanks.  Now I only have to run that script once for every new version of FLAC. However, sometimes I get this error:

"ERROR: Input file <insert filename here> has an ID3v2 tag."

What do I do about this? I've tried foobar's "Rewrite file tags", but to no avail.

I'm using FLAC 1.2.1, if it matters.

Try the Mp3tag program, it may be possible to remove the felonious ID3 tag with it.

Quote from: Martin H on 2007-01-21 13:42:21

Sorry, for repeating my question, but just in case that it was missed the first time around

@Josh Coalson

Would you please consider being so kind as to add wildcard support to flac.exe and metaflac.exe in a new version sometime ?

Martin, that's not a FLAC thing:  it's a Windows thing.  Wildcards work fine in Linux.