[CM] snd not reading flac on debian?

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Mon Jun 8 12:06:21 PDT 2015


Bill,

* Bill Schottstaedt <bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> [2015-06-08 13:57]:
> For flac files, Snd depends on the flac program, and needs to 
> have a path to it set during configuration.  You can tell if
> your Snd has that info via:
> 
> ./snd
> > (sound-file-extensions)
> ("wv" "mp3" "mpeg" "flac" "ogg" "caf" "rf64" "sf2" "wve" "voc" "aifc" "au" "WAV" "wav" "aif" "aiff" "snd")
Thanks for that advice. It is not there, only
("caf" "rf64" "sf2" "wve" "voc" "aifc" "au" "WAV" "wav" "aif" "aiff" "snd")
 
> If it's there, perhaps a decade ago Debian used a path to flac
> that no longer works.  I wish they would just remove the Snd package
> since they aren't updating it.  

flac is installed in /usr/bin/flac

So there is no other way to point snd to flac other than reconfigure and
recompile?

Thanks again,
P



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