I used Winamp to record a music CD as PCM 44,100hz, 16 bit, stereo .wav files.
Every time I try to use FALC (FLAC 1.1.0 for Windows (tools only) downloaded from http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html) to encode a file it keeps telling me "invalid input file".
The file you are trying to encode must be in the same working directory (\flac\bin\...) right?
Is this the wrong .wav format to encode with or not?
I am not very framiliar with command line applications so it could be something simple.
I try "flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [hitsfromthebong.wav]" and I get an invalid input file error.
I also tried:
flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [inputfile [hitsfromthebong.wav]
flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [inputfile [hitsfromthebong.wav]]
flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [inputfile[hitsfromthebong.wav]
flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [inputfile[hitsfromthebong.wav]]
flac [-v, -8, -e, -p 0, -p, -r 0,16] [inputfile [hitsfromthebong]
and on and on.
What am I doing wrong?

not sure about the winamp problem, but for the command-line, those square brackets in the docs are not meant to be typed, they're meant to denote optional arguments. you choose what options to add.

you can just do "flac hitsfromthebong.wav" or "flac -V hitsfromthebong.wav" or "flac -8 hitsfromthebong.wav" and it will make hitsfromthebong.flac (-V and -8 are different encoding options).

Josh

I knew it had to be something simple.
I am unfamiliar with command line applications and was trying to use the [ ] symbols.