Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux Similar to what this control panel provides for Ogg/Vorbis and MP3, it would be nice if there was a configuration panel for FLAC, for it supports some encoding options--e.g., speed versus size offsets. $ flac --help =============================================================================== flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.1.1 Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004 Josh Coalson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. =============================================================================== Usage: Encoding: flac [<general-options>] [<encoding/format-options>] [INPUTFILE [...]] Decoding: flac -d [<general-options>] [<format-options>] [FLACFILE [...]] Testing: flac -t [<general-options>] [FLACFILE [...]] Analyzing: flac -a [<general-options>] [<analysis-options>] [FLACFILE [...]] general options: -v, --version Show the flac version number -h, --help Show this screen -H, --explain Show detailed explanation of usage and options -d, --decode Decode (the default behavior is to encode) -t, --test Same as -d except no decoded file is written -a, --analyze Same as -d except an analysis file is written -c, --stdout Write output to stdout -s, --silent Do not write runtime encode/decode statistics --totally-silent Do not print anything, including errors -f, --force Force overwriting of output files -o, --output-name=FILENAME Force the output file name --output-prefix=STRING Prepend STRING to output names --delete-input-file Deletes after a successful encode/decode --skip={#|mm:ss.ss} Skip the given initial samples for each input --until={#|[+|-]mm:ss.ss} Stop at the given sample for each input file --ogg Use Ogg as transport layer --serial-number Serial number to use for the FLAC stream analysis options: --residual-text Include residual signal in text output --residual-gnuplot Generate gnuplot files of residual distribution decoding options: -F, --decode-through-errors Continue decoding through stream errors --cue=[#.#][-[#.#]] Set the beginning and ending cuepoints to decode encoding options: -V, --verify Verify a correct encoding --lax Allow encoder to generate non-Subset files --sector-align Align multiple files on sector boundaries --replay-gain Calculate ReplayGain & store in Vorbis comments --cuesheet=FILENAME Import cuesheet and store in CUESHEET block -T, --tag=FIELD=VALUE Add a Vorbis comment; may appear multiple times -S, --seekpoint={#|X|#x|#s} Add seek point(s) -P, --padding=# Write a PADDING block of length # -0, --compression-level-0, --fast Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -r 2,2 -1, --compression-level-1 Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -M -r 2,2 -2, --compression-level-2 Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -m -r 3 -3, --compression-level-3 Synonymous with -l 6 -b 4608 -r 3,3 -4, --compression-level-4 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4608 -M -r 3,3 -5, --compression-level-5 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4608 -m -r 3,3 -6, --compression-level-6 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4608 -m -r 4 -7, --compression-level-7 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4608 -m -e -r 6 -8, --compression-level-8, --best Synonymous with -l 12 -b 4608 -m -e -r 6 -b, --blocksize=# Specify blocksize in samples -m, --mid-side Try mid-side coding for each frame -M, --adaptive-mid-side Adaptive mid-side coding for all frames -e, --exhaustive-model-search Do exhaustive model search (expensive!) -l, --max-lpc-order=# Max LPC order; 0 => only fixed predictors -p, --qlp-coeff-precision-search Exhaustively search LP coeff quantization -q, --qlp-coeff-precision=# Specify precision in bits -r, --rice-partition-order=[#,]# Set [min,]max residual partition order format options: --endian={big|little} Set byte order for samples --channels=# Number of channels --bps=# Number of bits per sample --sample-rate=# Sample rate in Hz --sign={signed|unsigned} Sign of samples --force-aiff-format Force decoding to AIFF format --force-raw-format Treat input or output as raw samples negative options: --no-adaptive-mid-side --no-decode-through-errors --no-delete-input-file --no-exhaustive-model-search --no-lax --no-mid-side --no-ogg --no-padding --no-qlp-coeff-prec-search --no-replay-gain --no-residual-gnuplot --no-residual-text --no-sector-align --no-seektable --no-silent --no-force --no-verify
I have the same wish. I'd use kio_audiocd to rip and encode except for this problem: I don't know what parameters it uses when FLAC'ing my audio. So I use KAudioCreator in the mean time. Once the FLAC tab is added, I'll only want/need KAudioCreator for fixing up CDDB tags. (Maybe that should be part of kio_audiocd also? Hmm.)
Adding my vote - in particular, I'd like a checkbox for including replaygain tags, because I use these, and getting the correct whole album tags is a lot harder after the rip stage.
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Looks like a FLAC tab was added to the Multimedia module some time ago, though so far the only configuration settings it supports is the compression level.