Bug 191

Summary: Add flac support for SFZ samples
Product: LinuxSampler Reporter: Edward Diehl <diehl>
Component: driversAssignee: Christian Schoenebeck <cuse>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: andreas56
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Edward Diehl 2012-12-26 18:39:11 CET
It would be a big improvement to add support for flac samples for SFZ files.  This is because flac is a lossless compressed format which is much more compact that wav or aiff.   In my anecdotal experience flac samples are from 20% to 50% the size of a wave file.  For large SFZ files, e.g. Salamander Grand Piano, at more that 1GB in size (with wave file samples), this size reduction could save a lot of disk space.   An added bonus is the fact that flac is an open source, patent-free format.  Thanks for the great work on linuxsampler.
Comment 1 Edward Diehl 2013-01-14 05:30:50 CET
Hey, this is great. Thanks for the upgrade.