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Josh Coalson3117a322001-06-11 23:46:32 +0000[diff] [blame]73 <B><FONT SIZE="+2">FLAC developers</FONT></B>
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80 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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Josh Coalson26cb8d52001-09-28 23:08:20 +0000[diff] [blame]83 High priority items are:
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Josh Coalson26cb8d52001-09-28 23:08:20 +0000[diff] [blame]88 More input plugins. Currently there are plugins for XMMS and Winamp; Freeamp is in the works. More is better!
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Josh Coalson26cb8d52001-09-28 23:08:20 +0000[diff] [blame]91 Improving the compression methods.
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Josh Coalsonbb7f6b92000-12-10 04:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]101 Fix the MSVC makefiles to make libFLAC.dll (instead of just the .lib).
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Josh Coalsonbb7f6b92000-12-10 04:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]104 Configurable ID3V1 support and ID3V2 support in the plugins.
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Josh Coalson3117a322001-06-11 23:46:32 +0000[diff] [blame]107 Support more input types than just WAVE and raw in <TT><B>flac</B></TT>.
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Josh Coalsonbb7f6b92000-12-10 04:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]110 A better logo! Gimp jedi I'm not...
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115 Things that are in the works (check the flac-dev mailing list):
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120 Windows ACM codec.
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123 FLAC module for <A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/audiofile/">Audiofile</A>.
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147 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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149 <LI>The <A HREF="documentation.html#libFLAC">libFLAC API documentation</A></LI>
150 <LI>The <A HREF="format.html">formal description</A> of the FLAC format.</LI>
151 <LI>The <A HREF="id.html">ID registration page</A> for registering an ID if you need to write custom metadata.</LI>
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155 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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