Makeflac - A Lossless Music Archiving Utility

What is `makeflac`?

Makeflac is a simple frontend to cdparanoia and flac. It currently
utilizes both cdda2wav and cdparanoia to determine useful information
such as ISRCs, MCNs, CDDB IDs, and CD-Index IDs. After ripping a
CD using cdparanoia, makeflac will then encode and comment flacs using
this information. Makeflac is optimized for multiprocessor machines but
functions just fine on uniprocessor ones.

What does `makeflac` require?

Makeflac requires cdda2wav (cdrtools-2.x) and cdparanoia, as well as
flac-1.1.0 or higher. Makeflac is written in pure Bourne shell code for
portability.

Usage

Makeflac is pretty well-documented. Read and configure the top portion
before doing anything with makeflac.

Future Release Plans

- Fix --tracks option
- Abstract out the methods for naming files so the format can be
user-defined.
- Cuesheet creation support [2005-04-27: use cdrdao for this?]
- Implement better argument checking / error detection and handling
- Input: Shorten, and FLAC (for re-encoding) [2005-04-27: almost done]

Licensing

Feel free to hack makeflac up, but give me credit where credit is due.

Download

It is highly recommended that you download the latest version:

makeflac-0.6f - ChangeLog (2007-01-26)

Past Releases

These releases require cdrtools-2.x and DO NOT work with cdrtools-1.x

makeflac-0.6e - (2006-12-30)
makeflac-0.6d - (2006-12-12)
makeflac-0.6c - (2005-04-25)
makeflac-0.6b - (2004-06-15)
makeflac-0.6 - (2004-06-07)
makeflac-0.5 - (2003-10-06)
makeflac-0.4d - (2003-08-24)
makeflac-0.4c - (2003-08-21)
makeflac-0.4b - (2003-08-20)
makeflac-0.4 - (2003-08-18)
makeflac-0.3 - (2003-08-15)

These releases require cdrtools-1.x and DO NOT work with cdrtools-2.x

makeflac-0.2b - (2003-07-31)
makeflac-0.2 - (2003-03-29)
makeflac-0.1c - (2003-02-02)
makeflac-0.1b - (2003-01-12)

Contact

Using makeflac? Want more features? Hate makeflac? Let me know.

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