OptimFROG 4.506 is out together with an entire release series 1.06 of input plug-ins. The site has moved to a new and easier to remember location, http://LosslessAudioCompression.com and it was completely redesigned. The previous address, http://ghido.shelter.ro will continue to exist for around a month, so please update your bookmarks...

Changes for version 4.506 [2003.05.31] relative to 4.505:

- added wildcards support for matching multiple source files
- added the new highnew compression mode, 25% faster than extranew mode with very similar compression
- the encoder now writes the exact compression mode used in the informational purpose field of the header (instead of just extra for the extranew mode)
- added the --deleteafter option to delete the source file after successful encoding or decoding
- added the --timestamp option to copy the source file's time stamp to the destination file when encoding or decoding
- added the --md5 option to store MD5 hash of original raw PCM input data when encoding, and the --check command to check it later
- made the --verify command work also silent
- the --speedup option is now deprecated
- fixed an important memory leak in the decoder common plug-in interface
- fixed a rare decoder bug where files encoded with bestnew mode and speedup 1x would fail to decode. Thanks to Eltoder for reporting
- small fixes and improvements

Also, I want to thank you for the valuable feedback and help regarding improvement suggestions and problem reports for OptimFROG.

Florin Ghido

The foobar2000 component file is not named correctly. should be "OptimFROG_foobar2000_106.exe" not "OptimFROG_foobar2000_106.exe.zip"

edit: seems like it's a problem with MIME types in mozilla (mozilla renamed).

Thank you for the hint. It was indeed a problem with MIME types, but it didn't show up under IE.
I modified the files on the server to the right values (I hope), and I did also another small correction (the downloaded files didn't display their length, now they do).

Please let me know if it works this time...

Florin Ghido

How I get "OptimFROG_foobar2000_106.exe.php"

Ghido: I have packaged your dbpoweramp codec with a optimfrog encoder and stuck it as a full release now on dbpoweramp.com. Nice work

If you get chance to add tagging writing (or send along the input codec source if you would like me to do it).