[flac-dev] Meet the new maintainer

LRN
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:19 -0000

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On 06.02.2012 18:52, Olav Sunde wrote:
> At 14:16 06.02.2012, you wrote:
>
>> Olav,
>>
>> A change like this could easily break the format.  That would be
>> a bad choice.
>
> That makes sense. Explains why it is not there today.
>
>
>> On the other hand, an informational 'application' block could
be
>> added in a way that does not break the format, and this would
>> even be backwards compatible since 'application' blocks have
>> always been a part of the specification.  You simply won't be
>> able to rely on them being there.
>
> This is probably the best thing then. Adding the info will be
> optional? It would certainly be an improvement and hopefully become
> part of the command line description so users would know how to do
> it.
>
Make a specification for storing this kind of data in app-block, then
devise a way to measure encoding complexity of existing FLAC stream -
and you'll be able to put these block in FLAC files that didn't have
them originally.
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