Thanks! And congrats, Martijn, for your work and success on this! Jim------------------------
On Thu, 26 December 2024 at 11:36 AM, Martijn van Beurden <mva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry for completely forgetting to inform the mailing list about this. > It has been too quiet here lately. > > Anyway, RFC 9639 has been published, specifying the Free Lossless > Audio Codec (FLAC) format. See > > https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639 > (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639) > https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html > (https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html) > > Although FLAC has had a specification document since 2000 and an > open-source reference implementation filling in the details, this > document should formally specify the format, such that implementers > don’t have to look at the reference source code or browse the mailing > list archives for details. > > This publication doesn’t change the FLAC format except explicitly > adding support for 32-bit audio and adding restrictions to > accommodate, see here for details. > > The main benefit this publication brings is that it should make > writing a new FLAC decoder implementation from scratch much easier. It > also provides assurance for archives wanting to use the FLAC format > that their files remain decodable in the far future, in case FLAC ever > becomes obsolete and its implementations unusable. > > Many thanks for all who participated in improving this document. > > Kind regards, > > Martijn van Beurden > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > flac-dev@xiph.org (mailto:flac-dev@xiph.org) > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev > (http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev)
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