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  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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  83                 High priority items are:
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  88                         More input plugins.  Currently there are plugins for XMMS and Winamp; Freeamp is in the works.  More is better!
  89                 </LI>
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  91                         Improving the compression methods.
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  96                 Some other "nice-to-haves":
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 101                         Fix the MSVC makefiles to make libFLAC.dll (instead of just the .lib).
 102                 </LI>
 103                 <LI>
 104                         Configurable ID3V1 support and ID3V2 support in the plugins.
 105                 </LI>
 106                 <LI>
 107                         Support more input types than just WAVE and raw in <TT><B>flac</B></TT>.
 108                 </LI>
 109                 <LI>
 110                         A better logo!  Gimp jedi I'm not...
 111                 </LI>
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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:
 148                 <UL>
 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>
 152                 </UL>
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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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