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Jud

Apr 11 2007, 08:16

If you already have your collection encoded with -8 you'll probably only see about a 1-2% decrease in size. I used this on my personal backup with no problems. YMMV.

http://cdtag.com/download/reflac.zip

CODE

Re-encode FLAC files with a different version or compression setting.

Safety measures:
- Return values are tested on encode/decode for errors.
- Sample count is compared between original and new file.
- "flac -t" is executed on new file to ensure valid header and stream.

The following metadata blocks are preserved (ie, keep the tags):
VORBIS_COMMENT CUESHEET PICTURE APPLICATION

Usage:
reflac [options] "directory"

Options:
-?  :  show this screen
-r  :  recursive
-nb :  no backups (default = keep originals as .flac.bak)
-nw :  no flac windows
-#  :  new compression level (0..8)

Funkstar De Luxe

Apr 21 2007, 05:49

Hmm, after re-encoding a flac Foobar2000 still says "tool = reference libFLAC 1.1.2 20050205", as does metaflac.

The files are smaller and I have reloaded the tags (and even moved the files from the database) but it doesn't change :-/ any idea what's going on? It seems flac is not updating the tag appropriately.

Funkstar De Luxe

Apr 26 2007, 07:06

Anyone? I'd really like this resolved, or at least an explanation of what is happening

Synthetic Soul

Apr 26 2007, 07:48

Maybe the app just forgets to update the vendor string? Not sure how you'd check what version they really are.

jcoalson

Apr 26 2007, 09:19

it's hard to say without seing the source of reflac.exe

I don't know why it is needed though, the flac-1.1.4 encoder can take flac files as input, preserves all metadata, and updates the vendor string.

Synthetic Soul

Apr 26 2007, 09:31

Use it in conjunction with my extraordinarily-poorly-named flac-113.bat. Words and letters here.

Funkstar De Luxe

Apr 26 2007, 12:48

Ok, thanks man - I'll try it in the morning. I'm sure I'll have more questions, I'm a flac noob.

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