WinFF

I discovered WinFF today; it's a GUI frontend for FFMpeg that works on Windows and Linux. I immediately thought "Hey, this could be a good replacement for Blacklight". I'd often been thinking that a dedicated Walkman-loading utility was a bit ridiculous and that the appropriate settings should be available in other software. Plus, it being able to work on Windows means I don't have to make a Windows port of Blacklight.

I did think "I'll just add a basic patch to WinFF to allow it to encode to the settings required by the Walkman", but I've just had a look at the website and WinFF is written in PASCAL! The 1980s called - they want their programming language back! Surprisingly enough, I did learn a tiny bit of Pascal in 1999, I think - but I remember none of it, and it was all pretty simple stuff.

Still, I can add a feature request to their bugtracker with the exact settings required by the Walkman, and hopefully they'll add it!