Re: warning that legacy WAVE file has format type 1 but bits-per-sample is 24
Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]>
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Brian Willoughby wrote: > Are there some (old) programs that will not accept WAVEX headers? I'm > trying to think of why the flac utility worked this way in the first place. Yes probably. But that was probably 10 years ago or more. > In any event, it seems like it would be prudent to add a command line > option to preserve the existing behavior, just in case anyone has archived > their audio using FLAC and would need to maintain compatibility with the > legacy WAVE format. Its trvially easy to losslessly convert between legacy and WAVEX formats. Like I said, sndfile-convert does it. > It's not always possible to replace certain old programs, > especially in recording studios. A program that suppoprts 24 bit WAV and does support WAVEX would have had to be really old even 10 years ago. I don't think its worth adding this command line flag unless someone actually runs into the problem. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev