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The source of this project and the FLAC project can be found on http://sourceforge.net/project/flacfrontend and http://xiph.org/flac respectively.
1) Why is this command line thing popping up? FLAC frontend is a very simple program that just calls the 'real' FLAC encoder, which is command line based. This has been done to keep development of FLAC frontend easy and accessible and makes it possible to change the encoder without having to change anything in the FLAC frontend
2) Is there drag and drop support? Yes, there is. Just drag any files or directories to the list box in the top left of the FLAC frontend window. Any directories will automatically be searched (recursively) for .flac, .ogg, .oga and .wav files.
3) Where is FLAC tester? FLAC tester has been replaced by the frontend, because the frontend now has drag-and-drop support too. Just drag the files you want to test to the FLAC Frontend and click the test button.
4) How does the portable version of FLAC Frontend work? Just unzip the zip-file somewhere convenient and run the executable, either FLAC frontend-NET20.exe or FLAC frontend-NET40.exe, depending on which version of the .NET framework you have installed. If you have .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 you should use NET20, if you have .NET 4.0 or 4.5 use NET40. If you are not sure, just try both. You can just delete the other file if you don't want to have to remember which one is the right one.