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I'm writing a program that plays FLAC files using the libFLAC API's. Is there a specific way I'm supposed to handle multiple STREAMINFO metadata blocks? For example, should I ignore all but the first, or all but the last? The format spec doesn't mention anything. Thanks, - Brian Waters

...> > "A FLAC bitstream consists of the "fLaC" marker at the beginning of > the stream, followed by a mandatory metadata block (called the > STREAMINFO block), any number of other metadata blocks, then the > audio frames." > > 2010/11/16 Brian Waters <brianmwaters at gmail.com> >> I'm writing a program that plays FLAC files using the libFLAC API's. >> Is there a specific way I'm supposed to handle multiple STREAMINFO >> metadata blocks? >> >> For example, should I ignore all but the first, or all but the last?...

> I was wrong about it going up to 11 - it actually goes up to 12. Too bad. I thought for a minute there that it goes up to eleven because... "Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from

Hi all, I have a very large music collection that I keep on a portable hard drive (to plug in to car USB, carry with when I'm at my office, etc). All but a few dozen files are part of an album, and not a single audio file. This translates to an insane amount of files stored on my hard drive. I am very strict about how I label and file my media (I loathe unlabeled audio tracks), but

I'm busy 'till Monday morning but I'll break out the ole' diffy-q's textbook next week and do some background reading, thanks. Any clues on where in the code to look in order to put those hooks in? - Brian On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, J?rgen Vigdal <jorgen at anion.no> wrote: > Hi Brian. > > Thanks for liking the idea. > > The code for doing this,

.m3u and .pls playlist files are pretty common and most major media players support them, maybe even embedded ones like the one in your car. David's right, the best thing is to make a database of your stuff (iTunes was good, the last time I had a mac), but then that won't work in your car or anything. For a long time I've wanted to make a web-based music database that does the tables

> Regarding dithering, I am not aware of many programs that do that without > very specific user selection. Any user savvy enough to turn on dithering > would hopefully be paying attention well enough to avoid promoting 16-bit to > 24-bit without noticing their mistake. I suspect that this is sometimes done dishonestly in order to sell hi-fi enthusiasts DVD-A's made from