Frontah V0.92 is dated Sep 20 2003
so one year after there is still no V1.00 out,
is Frontah development dead for good ?

There is a lot of devs around, does anyone anyone know Madah,
what has happened ?

by luck Frontah was so good that it is not completly outdated for codecs that were already existing one year ago & for wich the switchs didn't change much ...
but still that at last the newer free codecs support could have been added (Faac, Wavpack4 support) ... & for sure some bugs fixed ...

If anyone has any info I am interested ... for small Flac>Ogg convertion I can manually use Speek's Oggifier but for massive (>10gig) bach encoding Frontah is still my favorite ... even one year later ...

Bump.

I would also like to know if there will be any updates to this program.
I have been using it for my conversions. It is really good.

Can anybody recommend an alternative. But not fb2k. I love it for playing music, but its CLI is comewhat clumsy to me.

For copying tags or what? If so, you could try MP3Tag.

FWIW, Frontah is still my program of choice for converting from lossless to lossy. Usually from APE, to Vorbis or MP3. I would also like to know.

Nope. For WAV-->FLAC and FLAC-->MP3 conversions.
It is super easy for that job.
And the tagging code is not that confusing.
And it has a "delete input file" switch.
It is a very well made piece of software.

Speek's encoder frontends are quite nice I think. Multi frontend and Batchenc could maybe be interesting in this context...

There's also one called UniversalFront. Haven't used it. Fairly recent info in this thread.

Thank you.
I have always liked Speek's frontends. And that last MultiFrontend is great. Although, is there a way to apply ReplayGain to FLAC files using it?

UniversalFront is the EXACT same program as Frontah! I'm shocked. Frontah just has a nicer interface.
Also, how does if apply RG to FLAC files?

Frontah uses metaflac.exe, but none of these programs offers it as an option.

FLAC can apply ReplayGain by itself during encoding from WAV to FLAC, if that's what you mean. Just add "--replay-gain" to the command line.

The problem with that are that it seems to only reliably add track gain. At least with coding from EAC it just adds the track gain value to the album gain field for each file too. If you want trustworthy album gain fields you must make the flacs in one operation, replaygain them in another thereafter.
What about adding the following to Batchenc:

Seems to work very well. Just press the + to add it as a preset

Will this work on on a folder that has individual albums on subfolders, treating each one differently?
You know, not having to load one at the time for processing.

No. I think it's quite stupid; you'll have to treat the exact number of files in one album at the time, only one album at the time. Unless I misunderstood something, that is. I don't think it uses anything like foobar2000 uses %album% field as significator when "scan selected files as multiple albums".

I hope you were not calling ME stupid (nevermind)
But yes, that is what I'm looking for, something like fb2k's "Scan selection as mutiple albums using album field"

If this cannot be done, well...

So, ummm, is Frontah dead? It would seem so. Perhaps we should try to email the author.

Mark the use of it: I think it's quite stupid. I have never reffered to a human being as it. By it I was pointing at the setup, more precisely metaflac, as all batcenc does is calling on metaflac. If you open CMD and call on metaflac --help, it doesn't seem to have many advanced options regarding replaygain, so there's probably nothing like what you request to squeeze out of it...
[EDIT] And I didn't mean to insult metaflac either, the sentence should be read as: The program are quite simple. [/EDIT]


I guess that it would need the frontend to separate the different albums in some way or another and then call upon metaflac to replaygain e.g. files 1-12 as one album, then 13-19 as another operation, and so on..... don't think you can set that up with batchenc. Did you look at UniversalFront? Could it have such possibilities...?