I remember this was asked in the past but I'm not sure where at this point, will FLAC ever support 8+ channels?

I am asking for the ATMOS audio tracks, are the extra channels over 7.1 different channels or just extra information from these channels? Thanks.

@NetRanger thanks for the updated build, the two dates mean the build has all the updates up to 2017-12-04 or 2018-01-14?

Is there a way you can compile a build with the last two fixes as well, from 6 and 8 days ago? Thanks.

Hi all

Sorry to butt in with a simple question...  How important is it to update to the latest version of FLAC?  When I rip CDs, I still rip to version 1.2.1.  What's the downside to this?  Should I look to change it and keep up with the times or am I ok as I am?  If changing, what will the benefits be?  And should I be thinking about changing my existing FLACs to a more recent version (if that's even possible)?

Cheers

If changing, what will the benefits be?  And should I be thinking about changing my existing FLACs to a more recent version (if that's even possible)?

HANDLE WINAPI flac_internal_CreateFile_utf8(...){
#if _MSC_VER > 1900 && WINAPI_FAMILY_PARTITION(WINAPI_PARTITION_APP)
 ...
handle = CreateFile2(wname, dwDesiredAccess, dwShareMode, CREATE_ALWAYS, NULL);
#else
 ...

Quote from: 40th.com on 2017-04-13 18:33:33

For those that want another option, here are 64-bit windows binaries, etc. from the 9 April 2017 source:
https://40th.com/jb/flac_gpl/files/

I can't download 20170409_xiph_flac_bin_winx64.zip, I got this error message:

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403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /jb/flac_gpl/files/20170409_xiph_flac_bin_winx64.zip on this server.

No problem with the other files though.

Quote from: MaxDread on 2018-01-15 08:56:38

If changing, what will the benefits be?  And should I be thinking about changing my existing FLACs to a more recent version (if that's even possible)?

Re-encoding is possible and should be lossless. But beware that the FLAC frontend, which is a tool that I guess people would employ, has eaten several of my files even if I asked it to verify. My paranoia and my backup drive saved those, though.
Also, I do unfortunately have a couple of corrupted FLAC files. Re-encoding produces a "technically valid" FLAC file "with the corrupted content", and I do not want them to show up as OK, so I did not re-encode those.

That were the caveats I think.

As for "benefits", my reason was cosmetic: when highlighting a bunch of files in my media player (foobar2000), it would show as "Tool" a bunch of different "reference libFLAC" versions before and in between the lossies, which made that view harder to read. I did of course not transcode the lossies, but I could and did get all the different "reference libFLAC" versions (from 1.1.4 and up) down to a single one.
Saving space? Likely not enough to bother. Unless you encoded at say "-0" (some do, often by misunderstanding encoding speed vs decoding speed), or had a habit of embedding enormous picture files, which you later have deleted (I do not think many applications can "reclaim" such wasted space?) or your hard drive is so full that you really want to squeeze out that last drop.