Thanks for your suggestions.

I agree with John ffitch that the file format should be specifiable as a string name that can be interpreted by the library. It should be possible to get Csound to output all formats supported by libsndfile that way.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Erik de Castro Lopo 
>Sent: Jan 17, 2006 2:16 PM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] File formats
>
>Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> Ok, drop SD2. What formats do you think a cross-platform Csound should
>> support?
>
>WAV, AIFF defintely.
>
>AU is also nice because it supports both endian-nesses and most reasonable
>PCM formats. AU is especially good for temporary files.
>
>Recent versions of libsndfile support FLAC which is a lossless codec 
>which is useful for storing large files. Compiling FLAC for windows
>is still a bit of a PITA.
>
>Ogg Vorbis support in libsndfile is still under development (by someone
>else) and I have no idea when that will be done.
>
>MP3 is unlikely to be added any time soon because of the patent and
>licensing issues.
>
>Erik
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