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-.TH "FLAC" "1" "20 December 2002" "" ""
+.TH "FLAC" "1" "29 July 2004" "" ""
.SH NAME
flac \- Free Lossless Audio Codec
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBflac\fR [ \fB\fIOPTION\fB\fR ] \fB\fIinfile\fB\fR \fB\fI...\fB\fR
+\fBflac\fR [ \fB\fIoptions\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIinfile.wav\fB\fR | \fB\fIinfile.aiff\fB\fR | \fB\fIinfile.raw\fB\fR | \fB-\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+
+\fBflac\fR [ \fB-d\fR | \fB--decode\fR | \fB-t\fR | \fB--test\fR | \fB-a\fR | \fB--analyze\fR ] [ \fB\fIOPTIONS\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIinfile.flac\fB\fR\fI ...\fR ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-This manual page documents briefly the
-\fBflac\fR command.
+\fBflac\fR is a command-line tool for
+encoding, decoding, testing and analyzing FLAC streams.
.PP
-This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux
-distribution because the original program does not have a
-manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML
-format; see below.
+This manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux
+distribution because the original program did not have a
+manual page.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
A summary of options is included below. For a complete
except no decoded file is written)
.TP
\fB-a, --analyze \fR
-Analyze a flac encoded file (same as -d
+Analyze a FLAC encoded file (same as -d
except an analysis file is written)
.TP
\fB-c, --stdout \fR
Silent mode (do not write runtime
encode/decode statistics to stderr)
.TP
+\fB--totally-silent \fR
+Do not print anything of any kind,
+including warnings or errors. The exit
+code will be the only way to determine
+successful completion.
+.TP
+\fB-f, --force \fR
+Force overwriting of output files. By default,
+flac warns that the output file already exists and
+continues to the next file.
+.TP
\fB-o \fIfilename\fB, --output-name=\fIfilename\fB\fR
Force the output file name (usually flac just
changes the extension). May only be used when
stdin or when the filename does not end in '.ogg'.
.TP
\fB--serial-number=\fI#\fB\fR
-When used with --ogg, specifies the serial
-number to use for the FLAC stream. When encoding and
-no serial number is given, flac uses '0'. When
-decoding and no number is given, flac uses the serial
-number of the first page.
+When used with --ogg, specifies the serial number to
+use for the first Ogg FLAC stream, which is then
+incremented for each additional stream. When encoding and
+no serial number is given, flac uses a random number for
+the first stream, then increments it for each additional
+stream. When decoding and no number is given, flac uses
+the serial number of the first page.
.SS "ANALYSIS OPTIONS"
.TP
\fB--residual-text \fR
files.
.SS "DECODING OPTIONS"
.TP
+\fB--cue=[\fI#.#\fB][-[\fI#.#\fB]]\fR
+Set the beginning and ending cuepoints to decode.
+The optional first #.# is the track and index point at
+which decoding will start; the default is the beginning
+of the stream. The optional second #.# is the track
+and index point at which decoding will end; the default
+is the end of the stream. If the seekpoint does not
+exist, the closest one before it (for the start point)
+or after it (for the end point) will be used. If those
+don't exist, the start of the stream (for the start
+point) or end of the stream (for the end point) will be
+used. The cuepoints are merely translated into sample
+numbers then used as --skip and --until.
+.TP
\fB-F, --decode-through-errors \fR
By default flac stops decoding with an error
and removes the partially decoded file if it
meaning a seekpoint every 9.5 seconds). You may use
many -S options; the resulting SEEKTABLE will be the
unique-ified union of all such values. With no -S
-options, flac defaults to '-S 100x'. Use --no-seektable
+options, flac defaults to '-S 10s'. Use --no-seektable
for no SEEKTABLE. Note: '-S #x' and '-S #s' will not
work if the encoder can't determine the input size before
starting. Note: if you use '-S #' and # is >=
of the PADDING block will be 4 bytes longer than
the length given because of the 4 metadata block
header bytes. You can force no PADDING block at
-all to be written with --no-padding, which is the
-default.
+all to be written with --no-padding. The encoder
+writes a PADDING block of 4096 bytes by default.
.TP
\fB-T \fIFIELD=VALUE\fB, --tag=\fIFIELD=VALUE\fB\fR
Add a Vorbis comment. The comment must adhere
.TP
\fB--no-delete-input-file\fR
.TP
-\fB--no-escape-coding\fR
-.TP
\fB--no-exhaustive-model-search\fR
.TP
\fB--no-lax\fR
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