[linux-audio-dev] Sound file format detection?

[Mario Lang]

Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com> writes:

>>  So that I could set the
>> appropriate decoder algorithm based on that analysis?  Or is
>> there actually a library one step higher level than libsndfile which
>> does generic audioformat to PCM?
>
> Isn't that what libsndfile does?
Yes :-)
>
> BTW, the latest release of libsndfile supports FLAC via the same API 
> as all the other formats.
GREAT!!! I was soooo waiting for this!  So now I'll be able to read
flac files in SuperCollider.
Now, if libsndfile only would do vorbis and mp3 too, I could just
use it as the backend for everything.
-- 
CYa,
  Mario