I am working on the latest update to MuseDrop to accept shn, ape, pac, and other lossless formats as inputs. I am also going to TRY to allow the user to drop a whole folder and process all the files in it, and add replaygain support.

I was just curious if there are any other suggestions. Should I use the new numbering system for setting quality, keep the old presets, or include options to use either? All comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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Great... okay... the suggestions: It would be good if you could make the "custom setting" fields preserve it's entry (currently: custom command line is "--quality 7 --xlevel --verbose" -> select "Standard" from the list -> custom command line is also set to "--standard").

Or maybe remove the profiles altogether, and offer a quality slider like in OggDropXP.

Another random observation: The files are processed in a weird order; i.e. it encodes files 5 to 12, then files 1 to 4. Is there a way to encode in a name-sorted order, straight from file 1 to 12?

But the most important thing: Please make decoding non-destructive! I once lost an important sample (my own) when i encoded it to MPC and decoded it afterwards; the original WAV was overwritten without further questions. A simple check by filenames would help.

fyi, the current version of musedrop lets me drop ape files onto it, transcodes them with tags even. built in replaygain would be nice though, as well as folder support (which i don't think i've ever tried).

If you are going to add FLAC, also keep in mind that in flac 1.0.5 you will be able to pull the ReplayGain tags from FLAC files that have them, which can save you from having to recalculate them again.

Josh

won't you need to recalculate the values anyway, since going from lossless to lossy (flac > mpc) can change peak values and induce clipping?

When I already have files being encoded and I add another one, a new mppenc window opens instead of cuing the new file.

I think it would be nice if I could send it to the system tray while it's encoding.
Ape 2.0 tags would be nice (if it can already do this, I didn't figure out how).
It would also be nice if it had context menu support for supported filetypes ( such as "encode with musedrop")

Hehe...got the same problem. Kinda sucks when I'm trying to decode a large amount of files to wav for burning to CD. It seems to me that the original queue is interrupted when a new file is dropped. I could be wrong, I haven't actually tried it for a few revisions. I just drop when I'm sure the current queue is done. B)

Edit: Elaboration

maybe add an additional toggle for --xlevel to the preset menu? or make --[preset name] --xlevel the default encoding parameter?

I'd really loved to get rid of a console window, as it was made in RazorLame.

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