FLAC support unicode? Options

[TaichiOrange]

I am a newer for FLAC. I am using FLAC to convert wave files into flac. But if the filename or directory contians Chinese, the tools told me "Error: can not open input file F:\audio\---------------".

FLAC does not support UNICODE? I need to re-complile the FLAC project?

Thanks.

[MiSP]

Is lack of Unicode support still a problem using Vista?

This post has been edited by MiSP: Sep 22 2007, 08:18

[Egor]

Is lack of Unicode support still a problem using Vista?

Yes.

Try the workaround mentioned above, or use foobar2000 - it has full Unicode support and some compatibility tricks for commandline encoders like flac.exe.

[MiSP]

Try the workaround mentioned above, or use foobar2000 - it has full Unicode support and some compatibility tricks for commandline encoders like flac.exe.

I use the following script found here on the forums (with slight modifications) for recoding FLAC files to the newest version installed:

CODE

@echo off
set encoder="C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.flac) do %encoder% --best -V -f "%%f")

What I'm after, is making this script also work with unicode names (currently I get the "invalid argument" error). I'll try the workaround described above.

Can foobar easily recode all of the FLAC files in my music library fully automatically, just like this script can?

Edit: Tested, didn't work. I made a flac.cmd containing exactly what is described above (except for the path), and I used the script above using flac.cmd instead of flac.exe. I got the following error:

CODE

ERROR: for encoding a raw file you must specify a value for --endian, --sign, --channels, --bps, and --sample-rate
Type "flac" for a usage summary or "flac --help" for all options

Edit #2: I can't help thinking that the two scripts must be merged. Can someone do this for me? I have little knowledge of such scripting... I want the settings and the recursive functionality of the script I mentioned, and the unicode support of the workaround script.

This post has been edited by MiSP: Sep 22 2007, 16:39

[whitejason]

Try the workaround mentioned above, or use foobar2000 - it has full Unicode support and some compatibility tricks for commandline encoders like flac.exe.

I use the following script found here on the forums (with slight modifications) for recoding FLAC files to the newest version installed:

CODE

@echo off
set encoder="C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.flac) do %encoder% --best -V -f "%%f")

What I'm after, is making this script also work with unicode names (currently I get the "invalid argument" error). I'll try the workaround described above.

Can foobar easily recode all of the FLAC files in my music library fully automatically, just like this script can?

Edit: Tested, didn't work. I made a flac.cmd containing exactly what is described above (except for the path), and I used the script above using flac.cmd instead of flac.exe. I got the following error:

CODE

ERROR: for encoding a raw file you must specify a value for --endian, --sign, --channels, --bps, and --sample-rate
Type "flac" for a usage summary or "flac --help" for all options

Edit #2: I can't help thinking that the two scripts must be merged. Can someone do this for me? I have little knowledge of such scripting... I want the settings and the recursive functionality of the script I mentioned, and the unicode support of the workaround script.

Did anyone ever help you figure out how to merge these files? I am having a similar problem with my audio files. I'm hoping that you are still a member of this forum so you can help me out if you had success. I'm having a ton of trouble trying to solve this. I'm wanting this fixed so that I can use a specific audio to play on my outdoor speakers. Thanks for your help.