Is there any chance that Ahead would consider porting their aac encoder to linux as a command-line tool? I'd happily pay for such a thing. I finally got xmms playback working thanks to the debian rarewares rep, but I don't trust faac yet.

When it becomes profitable enough to do so

Looking at recent test results, FAAC isn't so bad.

Well, you have one customer lined up at least.

I understand that making a profit on commerical software for Linux isn't easy.

What's wrong with Wine?

I don't mind using wine, but I really prefer a command-line client because I automate batch transcodes from flac. Is there any better CLI to nero aac than nencode? Wine + nencode is a little too hacky.

i'd be happy with just a cli version, a la psytel encoder (which works fine with wine, btw)

obviously i'd be more happy with a native linux binary, tho...


later

One of the reasons why I stick with WinXP. Although the idea behind GNU/Linux was the inspiration for many new aproaches in starting sound and video encoding projects and keeping them free source, there's too much of this software missing on this platform.

I use XP at home but I'm strictly Linux at work.

I think the community should start devoting its resources to improving FAAC, as was done for LAME.