> I would very much like to be able to record and read ogg/vorbis and > ogg/flac files in ecasound[0]. I'm not an experienced coder, but I can > read C/C++ (at least a little ... ) and I am an experienced sysadmin, so While reading Ogg/FLAC is sensible, "recording to" FLAC is not sensible since it will induce potential bottlenecks and delays which may cause your recording latency to the exceed a reasonable level. It's not trivial to compress audio data losslessly, and I highly doubt any commercial audio product records to a compressed format NATIVELY and on the fly, as opposed to an operation that occurs after the real-time nature of recording is completed. FLAC might squeeze 2:1, but the CPU cost is disproportionate to the I/O costs of storing the audio uncompressed. As far as reading/writing Ogg/FLAC files for processing, etc, that's another matter entirely. ecasound (whatever that is) should be able to read/write those during non-real-time operations. Even the Lord Elrond is attuned to Quality in the Darkest Hours, =MB= -- A focus on Quality.
