Title says most of it . I have an old version of foobar2000 and want to use it to further compress my old FLAC files using FLAC 1.1.3 . F2k 0.8.3 uses diskwriter, not converter, and insists on using libFLAC1.1.2 for its flac encoder presets, regardless of the fact that I have only flac.exe 1.1.3 installed. Anyway I've got the reencoding mostly figured out -- I created a new commandline encoder preset in foobar, pointed it at my flac.exe, and used these switches in the foobar 'parameters' window

- -8 -V -f -o %d

which creates a new flac file with all the old tags. However , -f doesn't seem to delete the input (old) flac file .

I also notice a weird thing,if I replace "-" (stdin as per flac documentation) with "%s" (temporary input file as per foobar) I get diffrent size output files. The one that involves a temporary input file (%s), a .wav.tmp file
that appears in the destination folder briefly and the deletes itself, results in a smaller file than "-" as input.
e.g.

original flac file (v1.1.0): 20,121 KB

foobar8.3/flac 1.1.3 w "-" as input: 19,753

foobar8.3/flac 1.1.3 w "%s" as input: 19,676

Can anyone explain how to force deletion of the input file in the old version of foobar, and also why Im getting two different filesizes from the same original file?

I believe that it is recommended to use the %s syntax, as the STDIN syntax file is larger due to a huge number of seek points being created.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=41287

0.8.3 doesn't need %s. Check "Encoder requires accurate length."

Thanks. From reading the thread that looks to be a problem with Converter (foobar 0.9) , not sure if it's an issue with Diskwriter (foobar 0.8) or not.




Thanks. I'll try that too.



Btw, as to deleting input files, I should have mentioned before that I tried

- -8 -V -f -o %d --delete-input-file

to no avail ; the old .flac file was still there after the new one was created.
Does it matter where in the command line it goes?

Just in case anyone's following this, my solution was to forego foobar for this particular purpose, and use a batch script instead -- see

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=462402

Create the batch file with Notebook or some other text editor, save as somename.bat (make sure it's not saved as a text or .txt file) , then drag and drop directories with flac files
onto the batch file icon. It will re-encode and overwrite the old flac files (for no overwrite, remove the --force switch)