FLAC 1.1.3 released Options

[jcoalson]

FLAC 1.1.3 has been released. Almost 2 years in the making, FLAC 1.1.3 is a major release with improved compression, improved cover art and multichannel support, better recovery for corrupted files, many new features and options in the command-line tools, and several bug fixes. For developers, the decoder and encoder APIs have also been simplified and there is a new porting guide. See the changelog entry for complete details.

Josh

[Martin H]

@Josh Coalson

Do you know why the optimized(ICL9.1-SSE2) flac.exe builds gives different filesizes ? There's no problem though, as i have verified that the decoded WAVs are bit-identical to the source files, but i was just currious about the exact reason for this.

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

Thank's again, mate


CU, Martin.


Edit: Of course i have remembered to add -A "tukey(0,5)" to the command-line of the stock compile when i compared the output filesizes of the stock compile VS the ICL9.1-SSE2 optimized compile, as the ICL9.1-SSE2 optimized compile's sources was taken from CVS after the 5th December 2005, so that it would include the comma decimal seperator bug-fix.

This post has been edited by Martin H: Jan 17 2007, 14:20

[Jose Hidalgo]

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

Just curious : what FLAC features made you switch ? What does FLAC currently have that WavPack doesn't ?

Thanks.

[Martin H]

What does FLAC currently have that WavPack doesn't ?

FLAC decodes faster and compresses better than WavPack's fastest decoding mode. FLAC has a CUESHEET metadata block which can decode single tracks out from the command line. FLAC has a PICTURE metadata block. FLAC can take FLAC files as input and transcode from FLAC to FLAC and also transfer tags. FLAC has a verify-while-encoding(-V) option. FLAC has better software support. FLAC has better hardware support.

what FLAC features made you switch ?

I'm only interested in very fast decoding and not in lossy or hybrid mode or getting better compression in trade of lower decoding speed and then i saw that the new FLAC version both decoded faster while also compressing better than WavPack's fastest decoding mode. Then other features of the new FLAC version really impressed me like with it's added FLAC to FLAC transcoding while transfering all tags and a switch for embedding a cuesheet into a Vorbis comment(like WavPack) + even better than before error correction + giving better compression without decoding penalty.

CU, Martin.

This post has been edited by Martin H: Jan 17 2007, 18:53