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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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88 More input plugins. Currently there are plugins for XMMS and Winamp; Freeamp is in the works. More is better!
91 Improving the compression methods.
96 Some other "nice-to-haves":
101 Fix the MSVC makefiles to make libFLAC.dll (instead of just the .lib).
104 Configurable ID3V1 support and ID3V2 support in the plugins.
107 A better logo! Gimp jedi I'm not...
112 Things that are in the works (check the flac-dev mailing list):
120 FLAC module for <A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/audiofile/">Audiofile</A>.
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144 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:
146 <LI>The <A HREF="documentation.html#libflac">libFLAC API documentation</A> and <A HREF="documentation.html#libflacpp">libFLAC++ API documentation</A></LI>
147 <LI>The <A HREF="format.html">formal description</A> of the FLAC format.</LI>
148 <LI>The <A HREF="id.html">ID registration page</A> for registering an ID if you need to write custom metadata.</LI>
152 There also are several examples in the FLAC code base of the use of libFLAC and 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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