FLAC support

[Thomas Helzle]

Hey,

I just stumbled over the fact that FLAC isn't supported in the Usine samplers.
I seem to get more and more samples in this format - would it be possible to support it natively without converting or is that a bad idea for some reason?

Thanks!

Tom

[sephult]

Really, I very rarely see FLAC nor use it.
Mostly raw .wav, rex, and mp3.

.rex conversion to grain sampler would be really cool, except the fact that you need Recycle, or a license for export.

-S

[senso]

I'll see if it's possible to add a converter free to use in Usine.
Normally we have to pay royalties for that.

[iococoi]

+1 for FLAC

and they seem to have a very open-minded license approach
..https://xiph.org/flac/license.html

[ceasless]

Not just open minded, but fundamentally open. No patents, no royalties, no reason not to support

[Thomas Helzle]

Thanks a lot Senso for looking into it.

Would that mean that you need to "hard-convert" the FLAC to wav/aif on disk or can you play back the file without conversion?
Because converting them to wav is what I want to avoid - I have tools that can do that already, but I would like to keep the footprint of those libraries on disk as small as possible.

I also started to use FLAC a lot for surround work, since it is one of the best delivery formats for it IMO.
With multichannel support, every bit- and sample rate under the sun and about half the size of uncompressed audio without losing quality it's really nice - and Audacity handles it very well.
So my Bandcamp projects use multichannel FLAC to deliver the 5.1 surround version (as "bonus item" since Bandcamp doesn't directly support surround yet):

http://excerpts-of-infinity.bandcamp.co ... at-i-on-ii
https://thomashelzle.bandcamp.com/album ... l-nature-2

There also is a brilliant player for such multichannel files (and all others as well): http://resonic.at/

So if it fit's into your concept for Usine, it could be a rather cool addition for in- and output.

Cheers,

Tom

[senso]

Not just open minded, but fundamentally open. No patents, no royalties, no reason not to support

maybe the time, a matter of priority?:)

[ceasless]

Ah yes, well those are reasons not to support yet.

[Jongleur]

I unwanted files in the format flac 24bit, the use in plant Hollyhock would be appreciated:)

[Jongleur]

New on this subject. Thank You