Hi,
I haven't seen any information about Lyrics in the documentation and
mail archives, so I guess the answer... but may be I've missed something...
Does flac support lyrics?
Regards,
J?r?me
FLAC supports Application-specific metadata blocks. Although I am not aware of any which are specific to lyrics, you could create your own. If nothing exists, and you were to make a proposal for review by the community, then I'm sure you could start a new standard. On that topic, what other audio file formats support lyrics? Where can we see documentation for the existing formats? It might be helpful to look at the better designs which have come before. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Aug 31, 2009, at 14:53, J?r?me COUDERC wrote:> I haven't seen any information about Lyrics in the > documentation and > mail archives, so I guess the answer... but may be I've missed > something... > Does flac support lyrics?
FLAC already handles Vorbis comments, why not just put the lyrics into a comment? All the existing players are likely to look there anyway. I know that's what I did when I wrote the plugins for MediaCenter. -----Original Message----- From: flac-dev-bounces at xiph.org [mailto:flac-dev-bounces at xiph.org] On Behalf Of Brian Willoughby Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:07 PM To: J?r?me COUDERC Cc: Flac-dev at xiph.org Subject: Re: [Flac-dev] Flac and lyrics FLAC supports Application-specific metadata blocks. Although I am not aware of any which are specific to lyrics, you could create your own. If nothing exists, and you were to make a proposal for review by the community, then I'm sure you could start a new standard. On that topic, what other audio file formats support lyrics? Where can we see documentation for the existing formats? It might be helpful to look at the better designs which have come before. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Aug 31, 2009, at 14:53, J?r?me COUDERC wrote:> I haven't seen any information about Lyrics in the documentation > and mail archives, so I guess the answer... but may be I've missed > something... > Does flac support lyrics?_______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev at xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
Both MPEG-4 File Format (mp4) and Matroska (mkv) have an interesting format for lyrics and subtitles. Since these container formats can contain multiple contain streams, lyrics or subtitles are just another "stream" interleaved with the rest of the data. They are synchronized by having timestamps like any other stream. The payload is just text data. If you don't care about synchronizing the lyrics with the music, stuffing the lyrics in the metadata is the most simple and straightforward way. For a single stream file format like FLAC, you can't interleave a timed lyrics track, although you could put the entire block of data up-front in an application metadata block as Brian suggests. You could also put FLAC in an mkv container which would allow you take advantage of matroska's lyrics support. FLAC streams in the matroska spec, but I'm unsure what media players support this combination (and if the ones that do support it will also support lyrics) -Ben Allison> FLAC supports Application-specific metadata blocks. Although I am > not aware of any which are specific to lyrics, you could create your > own. If nothing exists, and you were to make a proposal for review > by the community, then I'm sure you could start a new standard. > > On that topic, what other audio file formats support lyrics? Where > can we see documentation for the existing formats? It might be > helpful to look at the better designs which have come before. > > Brian Willoughby > Sound Consulting > > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 14:53, J?r?me COUDERC wrote: >> I haven't seen any information about Lyrics in the >> documentation and >> mail archives, so I guess the answer... but may be I've missed >> something... >> Does flac support lyrics? > > > _______________________________________________ > Flac-dev mailing list > Flac-dev at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev >
--- On Mon, 8/31/09, J?r?me COUDERC <jerome.couderc at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I haven't seen any information about Lyrics in the documentation and > mail archives, so I guess the answer... but may be I've missed something... > Does flac support lyrics?I think most people are just putting it in a LYRICS tag.