[LAD] Ardour session archiver (Was: new lossless/lossy audio compressor)

Marc-Olivier Barre mobarre at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 10:31:46 UTC 2007


Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
>> I been thinking of the same thing... can't ardour handle FLAC files
>> natively ?
>
> Nope.

I only meant natively reading them.

On 8/1/07, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> >> a simple script in <you-name-it> language calling flac to
> >> to compress the audio and change the session file to match the new
> >> names should work I think.
> >>
> >> Thoughts anyone ?
> >
> > That'd be nice but as I said earlier, FLAC can't handle Ardour's wav
> > files:
> >
> > pw at kermit sounds $ flac Audio\ 1-1.wav
> >
> > flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005  Josh Coalson
> > flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
> > you are
> > welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
> > details.
> >
> > options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
> > Audio 1-1.wav: ERROR: unsupported compression type 3
>
> Seems that ardor uses WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT and flac can only do pcm.
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__samples
> That make flac not idea for that purpose. If one still wants to do that,
> gstreamer could do the converion and en/decoding.

Well if FLAC can be read by ardour directly, gstreamer is not such a
bother... I can include that in my script.

Paul Winkler wrote:
> > But as pointed out earlier in the thread, wavpack is open source and
> > it seems to work.

I'll give a try to wavpack too and tell you how things went.
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