Was a bit bored so I made a nice little Wikipedia Bookmarlet.

To use the bookmarklet just right click and bookmark This link

Any questions or praise let me know!

I decided to have a go at building FLAC from source today which was very simple. I built two versions of FLAC, one was a normal Mac OS X Universal Binary with both the PowerPC and Intel binaries, the other was a pure PowerPC binary optimized for the G4 (the PPC7450 line).

I then decided to test the performance of them, I wasn’t very scientific I just used the stopwatch on my iPod to time the encode of a song. I encoded the same song using the –best option three times with each just to make sure that no caching was happening and the result was as accurate as I could get it. The outcome was pretty interesting.

PPC/x86 Universal Binary
28 Seconds

PowerPC G4 Optimzed
10 Seconds

Thats quite a difference!

I then found something pretty odd, if I encoded the track with the G4 version and tried to decode it using the Universal version I would get the error “ERROR, MD5 signature mismatch” and vice versa when encoding the other way round, very odd. I tried decoding both encodes with a third party app and that decoded both fine. I’ll encode a song and see if someone else has a problem decoding it.

If anyone wants a copy of my binaries let me know and I’ll package them up for you to play with.