Why is FLAC supposedly so bad?

[The Wicker Man]

probably someone incognito

[pigonthewing]

Originally Posted by dorrcoq

Who is this guy? I think him and Sara would be a match made in heaven

Fuck.

Originally Posted by dorrcoq

Who is this guy? I think him and Sara would be a match made in heaven

Why? I'm not nearly as much of a space cadet as this guy is.

Oh, and it's 'Sarah' with an 'h'--that's the proper transliteration from the Hebrew origin of the name. Spelling it with out the 'h' is a bastardization.

[pigonthewing]

Originally Posted by mfsljunkie

Why? I'm not nearly as much of a space cadet as this guy is.

If by that, you mean Hello Kitty fan, then I'm pretty far out myself.

[The Wicker Man]

Why is a silent H necessary?

Uh, and did you know that the count from Sesame street was a pimp?



"One bitch-slap, mwuhahaha, TWO bitch-slap, mwuhahaha, THREEE bitch slap, mwuhahaha. Three bitch-slaps gets the bitch to give me my money."

This dude at work told me that. It's funnier if you watched alot of sesame street as a kid. Or if you still watch it. Whatever.

[U2Lynne]

Thwumpt, I'm moving your thread to Technobabble where you will get a better response.

Uh, where was I, oh yeah, shns suck. LOL.

Thank you.

[Five]

I've never heard anybody say FLAC is bad... everybody agrees it's the best. Who told you it's bad?

Flacs is good. It's high in fibre and keeps you regular so you don't stay up all night slobbering on your keyboard and fretting about sector boundaries and the relative losslessness of human existance-or whatever.

[ssamadhi97]

Originally Posted by mfsljunkie

I really don't know why there isn't a gstreamer plugin for Shorten.

well.

• the "official" reference decoder implementation is pretty much un(re)usable.
• nobody feels like reimplementing it to create a sane decoder
• the foobar plugin is actually based on a somewhat sane independent decoder implementation, but the foo_shn devs are lazy bastards and mostly uninterested in Linux, so they're not going to make a gstreamer plugin anytime soon either (trust me on this one. I know.)

That should cover it..

Originally Posted by Thwumpt

Uh, where was I, oh yeah, shns suck. LOL.

Yes it does.

Instead of going into a lengthy and unnecessarily technical rant on why that's the case, let me just reiterate: Trust me, it sucks.

Originally Posted by Five

I've never heard anybody say FLAC is bad... everybody agrees it's the best.

I disagree. It's not. WavPack is better.

[Chachi420]

Originally Posted by Thwumpt

Please give a real answer. If you don't know, don't post, unless you're hijacking the thread with something funny, or you want to argue. That would be funny, but, seriously, don't lie if you don't know. I seek an honest truth.

I used to use shn, but I now use flac becasue it seems to compress more than shn. They are both lossless, so not any difference in quality. The change took a long time for me, but one day I realized that flac is the way to go now.

[jazzbo]

Originally Posted by ssamadhi97

well.

• the "official" reference decoder implementation is pretty much un(re)usable.
• nobody feels like reimplementing it to create a sane decoder
• the foobar plugin is actually based on a somewhat sane independent decoder implementation, but the foo_shn devs are lazy bastards and mostly uninterested in Linux, so they're not going to make a gstreamer plugin anytime soon either (trust me on this one. I know.)

That should cover it..

Well, another big problem with shorten (in the eyes of the gstreamer folks) is the licensing situation which is unclear on modified source distribution and basically forbides commercial usage which makes it difficult to get into a commercial product. So the unfree license keeps it out.

Source for a shorten plugin for gstreamer exists in the CVS sandbox in the gstreamer codetree:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer...x/gst-shorten/ My understanding is that it is largely abandoned, probably because of the reasons you cite above.

[dorrcoq]

Originally Posted by mfsljunkie

Why? I'm not nearly as much of a space cadet as this guy is.

Oh, and it's 'Sarah' with an 'h'--that's the proper transliteration from the Hebrew origin of the name. Spelling it with out the 'h' is a bastardization.

Typical self-absorbed arrogance - what makes you think I was refering to you?

[U2Lynne]

Originally Posted by dorrcoq

Typical self-absorbed arrogance - what makes you think I was refering to you?

Do we have another Sara, or Sarah, around here?