Wavosaur

TRex · Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 4

I'm a new user and shocked that FLAC isn't supported, in contrast to some less popular formats. Shocked

You may have a look at http://ffmpeg.org/. The simplest way to support all common multimedia formats would be to use the command line tool. Cool

But maybe the licensing (GPL) doesn't allow to use it?

FordMustang · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 184

not as dead as ogg, but not very alive Confused

TRex · Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 4

Regarding the usage and popularity of FLAC it is very alive!
It's the de facto standard for lossless audio compression, widely supported by hardware and software players.

Devolpment has finished without any need for updates so far.
If any further development was needed in the future, even if the original developers didn't continue, other developers could take over, as it is open source.

coff.etime · Joined: 22 Sep 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Spokane, WA USA

+1 for FLAC

Such technology offering 50–60% *lossless*compression, and identical copy of original, seems like an excellent addition to any Audio Editor.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec

rumpelpudding · Joined: 31 Aug 2012 Posts: 4

+1
would be beneficial imho for saving archival-quality directly from the recording, without wasting time and space for intermediary WAVs (or other lossless).
as i understand (correct me if i'm wrong), de- and re-encoding, even multiple times (as it would be the case when actually using a flac-file as regular 'work'-file) imposes no degrade in quality. (this might depend on compression parameters).
For example, Renoise uses flac exclusively as storage format for saved tracks' samples. Those samples get re-encoded on every load/save of a track, wich can be very often.

Greetings, keep it up
r

PS. imho, even if flac has not shown very 'alive' in the sense of it's development recently, i think it can be considered mature. afaik even in professional environments flac is considered a standard as archival format.

PSPS: most things were already said, didn't read the thread beforehand :-/

princeperry · Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1 Location: Vancouver BC

+1 FLAC!

Claw · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

+5 ;)))

Wavosaur Main Developer · Site Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 507 Location: France

For the moment the FLAC support is not scheduled.
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Smurf43 · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Ohio, uSA

After years of using Flac & WavPack, I settled on Monkeys Audio APE format as my standard for collabs across the net. It retains the upper registers better per compression level, AND it works a LOT smoother & faster than Flac or WavPack.

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Wavosaur Main Developer · Site Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 507 Location: France

Hi Smurf43!

One of the first wavosaur user!
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EvilDragon · Joined: 14 May 2013 Posts: 11

bytechop · Joined: 03 Jul 2013 Posts: 3

I can recommend to use flac-drop. Wavosaur is cool enough when exporting perfect wav files. A file format export like acid loop would be cool for use with Native Instruments Battery.

PP · Joined: 12 Jul 2013 Posts: 1

Wow, such a nice software and no FLAC support? Thats sad. This piece of work definatly need FLAC support.
I mean beside m4a, FLAC is THE standard for lossless audio. Many mobile player and software use it.
Wouldn't it be nice to have Wavosaur in this list??

https://en.kikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hardware_and_software_that_supports_FLAC

thank you

Wavosaur Main Developer · Site Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 507 Location: France

we are working on this subject, but donation is good in the navy
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Regnas · Joined: 12 Aug 2013 Posts: 9

+1 for FLAC support Okayyyyyy