Ardour cannot open FLAC files

[Endolith]

Binary package hint: ardour

As far as I know, the version of Ardour included in Ubuntu does not support FLAC files, though it can be compiled to support them.

See "Ardour and flac" Ubuntu Forums thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626020

and

"How Do I Import FLAC Into Ardour 2.0 Rc1?"
http://ardour.org/node/861

They're supported fine in Audacity and Adobe Audition, so I converted all my .wav files to .flac long ago and saved several GB. Now that I am trying to use Ardour, of course, they are useless.

[Festor (festor-deactivatedaccount)]

#
# june 1st 2007: look for a function that is in FLAC 1.1.2 and not in later versions
# since the version of libsndfile we have internally does not support
# the new API that libFLAC has adopted
#

Ardour supports FLAC only with 1.1.2, but Ubuntu >= 7.10 has 1.1.4 versión of FLAC (hardy, intrepid and jaunty have 1.2.1 version)

Then, this is a bug of upstream

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Allegedly fixed in 2.8.3: http://ardour.org/node/3046 . Will we see this version in the karmic universe repos?