Rippit the Ogg Frog's Blog
Read about my progress in developing music software that's Free as in Freedom.
The Ogg Frog Free Music software has been in development for a long time now, but I'm afraid progress hasn't always been steady. I have announced planned release dates twice, but because of such life events as getting new jobs and moving to new homes, I failed to achieve either ship date.
Some folks have made the reasonable accusation that Ogg Frog is just vaporware. It's not by any means, but I don't want to release it until it's ready. Why? Because I feel that the Open Source mantra of "Release Early, Release Often" doesn't serve the needs of my end users - you!
I have decided not to announce any more planned ship dates. Instead, I will be reporting my progress towards completing the planned 1.0 feature set in my new weblog.
I do most of my Ogg Frog work on weekends, so I should be posting new blogs about once a week. So without further ado...
Free Lossless Audio Codec Support Implemented
Sunday, August 19, 2007
I resumed work on Ogg Frog a few days ago after a pause of several months. Things had been just too unsettled in my life to focus on Free Software development - I got a new job, and moved from Vancouver, British Columbia to California's Silicon Valley. But I'm happy to report that I have added support for the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) to Ogg Frog.
The advantage of FLAC is that one can use it to make bit-for-bit perfect backups of of audio compact discs while storing the data in a minimum of disc space. The more-familiar WAV format is also CD-quality, but FLAC files are about half the size of WAVs.
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