Hello everybody, my nick should be Tyco72, but the registration wit my @hotmail address fails. I don’t get sent the confirmation message. It is even not in in the spam folder. So now my 1st nick and email are locked. I had to repeat the registration using a different email provider and nick. Could an administrator check what happened? The contact form of the forum doesn’t work too.
Anyway, now I have to convert very important tracks from .wav to FLAC, and I would like to use the latest version of the FLAC codec, the v1.3.3
In the installation folder of Audacity I see 2 ddl files: FLAC.dll and FLAC++.dll
I guess that in order to update the codec it should be enough to replace these 2 dll with the updated versions.
I have downloaded the latest FLAC codec package for Windows in the official site here: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/flac/
but inside of it, I don’t find these 2 dll files.
Is there is a way to updated the FLAC codec manually?
Unfortunately Hotmail does not like mail from forums, and is notorious for blocking mails sent from phpBB (the forum software). This problem has been around for years, and there’s nothing that we can do about it other than recommending that people use a better email service.
Why, what’s the problem? (The FLAC format has been frozen for many years and is very unlikely to ever change.)
Hi, strange. Normally I receive emails from some other phpBB forum, but yes, sometimes there can be problems.
I have no problems with the current FLAC, but I see that Audacity uses the version 1.3.2, meanwhile now the codec v1.3.3 has been released. If it is matter just to replace 2 dll files, it is not a great deal. The question is how to get these dll.
As the saying goes, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”
Looking at the FLAC changelog, it seems that the only differences between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 concern build chains (building from code). As FLAC 1.3.2 builds correctly in Audacity, I don’t see any benefit in updating at this time.
Thank you very much for the info. Then I will go ahead with 1.3.2.
A little question about FLAC. Is there any potential negative effect using the high compression level (level 8)?
I mean concerning possible compatibility issues with some audio players or other software, or risk of generate errors during the decoding phase.
