FLAKE(1)

📦 version 0.11, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ FLAKE(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the flake man page — section 1, general commands, the whole vibe 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

flake</purgle> — the alternative Free Lossless Audio Codec encoder, aka the FLAC encoder that said "what if I was simply better at this" 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

flake [options] [input.wav] [output.flac]

literally that's it. you feed it a .wav, it gives you a .flac, no cap 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so flake is an alternative encoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec. not the reference one, the other one. the one that woke up and chose violence (affectionate) 😌

here's the tea: most tests turn out very similar or slightly better compression than the FLAC reference encoder. like, it's giving "same energy but cuter" ✨ and it generally encodes significantly faster, which is the part where I go 😭 because that's a huge deal.

and bestie, before you ask — the decoding times of the generated files are also close to those made by the reference encoder. so nobody's suffering on the other end. iconic behavior, honestly 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per option, all of them, no skipping, we do not gatekeep here 🌈

  • -h — prints out the list of commandline options. your little "help me" button, use it, love it 💜
  • -p # — padding bytes to put in the header (default: 4096). yes, 4096, the default is exactly that, don't come for me 🍓
  • -0..-12 — compression level (default: 5). twelve whole levels, from -0 all the way to -12, and the default sits at a chill 5 😌
  • -b # — block size [16 - 65535] (default: 4608). note the range, bestie, 16 to 65535, and the default is 4608 ✨
  • -l # — maximum prediction order [0 - 32] (default: 8). range is 0 through 32, default 8 🎀
  • -o # — prediction order selection method. the menu is:
    • 0 = maximum
    • 1 = estimate (default)
    • 2 = 2-level
    • 3 = 4-level
    • 4 = 8-level
    • 5 = full search

six whole methods, and the default is 1, the estimate one 💅

  • -s # — stereo decorrelation method. the options are:
    • 0 = independent L+R channels
    • 1 = mid-side (default)

so if you don't say anything, you get mid-side, periodt 🫶

ngl, if you're passing a number to -p, -b, -l, -o or -s, it's # — a value — not a vibe. don't freeball it 🫠

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

like, obviously. the whole family tree, iykyk 🌳

👑 AUTHOR 👑

flake was written by Justin Ruggles <justin.ruggles@gmail.com>. thank you for your service, king 🫡💖

this manual page was written by Thomas Perl <thp@perli.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous, so kind, we love that for them 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version of FLAKE(1) is brought to you by Thomas Perl, dated 2007-05-20, and it's the FLAKE(1) manual you just read top to bottom. mwah 💋✨

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