In article , Tony Houghton
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In ,
Martin Gregorie wrote:

Thanks to you both for the postings on pipes, etc. I've 'locked' them both
in Pluto to keep for future reference and I will experiment with the
methods at some point to see how I get on.

At present, though, I've experimented with setting up a tempfs 'ramdisc'
sic at /mnt/ramdisc and adding an fstab line that seems to work nicely.
So for now I'll use that as I find it simpler because of my past
experience.

The updated program I release will behave by default as the present
version, but allow the user to choose a directory they prefer for tempfiles
if they wish. That's a quite seperate issue to using a 'ram' location for
it.

I need to update the RO Flac_HealthCheck as I spotted a minor bug when
working on the Linux version. Once the above is done I'll look again at the
CD program and if a pipe might be easier for me there or not. Although my
first experiments will be to see if I can bypass that entirely by using the
CD libraries, etc, to read 'directly into my main program. So may not need
pipes or temp files at all.

But as before my main interest is in making the ability to carry out the
analysis possible for anyone who wishes. So may decide, again, to release a
version that uses my methods and welcome anyone interested to produce what
they feel is a 'better' version. Plain truth is that I'm not a good
programmer, and it isn't my main interest. I just bang rocks together to
get the fire. If I were a *good* programmer I'd probably built the Flac
decoding into my program in the first place! 8-]

Question: should the same sort of 'piping' be possible for using the RO
flac port?

Jim

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