The Future of FLAC Options

[spoon]

From January 2012 FLAC is being maintained by Erik de Castro Lopo under the auspices of the Xiph.org Foundation.

Taken from

https://github.com/crrodriguez/flac

...but I guess this guy does not have the access to flac.soureforge.net

From an Email I sent off to Eric,

Mr Spoon wrote:

> We have been trying to find what has happened to Josh for quite a while

He's fine, just not working on FLAC anymore.

> now, we came across https://github.com/crrodriguez/flac which suggests =
> you have taken over FLAC management? is this correct?

Yes it is.

> have you taken over flac.sf.net also?

We are in the process of moving the web pages to:

http://xiph.rog/flac/

Once that is done, we will ask Josh to set up a HTTP redirect on the
flac.sf.net web site.

Cheers,
Erik

So it seems Josh is no longer working on FLAC, I am concerned that merging into xiph might not be best for FLACs future...(it is nothing personal against xiph), FLAC has a window of opportunity to become the defacto lossless codec, but without strong management it will not (and in 4 years everything will be in Apple lossless, or some such)

I propose that a team from HA is put together and then propose to xiph that such a team take over FLACs stewardship. If you are interested put your name forward, and if the team is strong, we can propose.

This post has been edited by spoon: Aug 31 2012, 21:50

[Brand]

One obvious area where help may be appreciated is the website, which indeed is looking like 1997 and also is outdated content-wise.

I agree. Who do I contact regarding this?
I'm not that good at web design, but I could at least submit some news etc.

Steinberg Cubase and Adobe Audition

Both of those actually support FLAC natively.
(Information like this could be added to the FLAC website.)


Meanwhile, you can also vote for FLAC support in Windows Phone (no need to log in). Supposedly Microsoft actually reads those requests.