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

[Paul Winkler]

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.

> 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


But as pointed out earlier in the thread, wavpack is open source and
it seems to work.

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