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| FLAC is an open source project and we are happy to enlist the help of anyone who wants to contribute. You can do this to a limited extent through the <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13478">mailing list</A> but if you have major changes to make to the code it's best to <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=13478">sign up as a developer</A>. In either case, make sure to check out the <A HREF="goals.html">FLAC goals</A> first; there are some thing the we <B>don't</B> want added to FLAC, like copy protection and lossy compression. |
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| High priority items are: |
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| More input plugins. Currently there are plugins for XMMS and Winamp; Freeamp is in the works. More is better! |
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| Improving the compression methods. |
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| Some other "nice-to-haves": |
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| Fix the MSVC makefiles to make libFLAC.dll (instead of just the .lib). |
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| Configurable ID3V1 support and ID3V2 support in the plugins. |
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| Support more input types than just WAVE and raw in <TT><B>flac</B></TT>. |
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| A better logo! Gimp jedi I'm not... |
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| Things that are in the works (check the flac-dev mailing list): |
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| Windows ACM codec. |
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| FLAC module for <A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/audiofile/">Audiofile</A>. |
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| FLAC is open to third-party developers who want to add support for FLAC into their programs. All the necessary functionality is contained the library libFLAC which is licensed under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LGPL</A>. The relevant documentation here is: |
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| There also are several examples in the FLAC code base of the use of libFLAC that may also be helpful. Visit the <A HREF="download.html">download page</A> for instructions on how to get the source. |
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