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...sync, or find some better way to detect the file type without scanning > the whole file. Any tips on the best way to do that? Perhaps I have misunderstood your problem, but is this not what magic numbers are for? For Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC, see: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIMETypesCodecs#Codecs_Parameter For Native FLAC, see: http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_format_overview.html Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

Shayne Wissler <wissler at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Martin Leese > <martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org> wrote: ... >> For Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC, see: >> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIMETypesCodecs#Codecs_Parameter > > Isn't this meta information used in e.g. email and HTML? I don't think > it will help vet a standalone file. In any case, I already have a > solution with the OGG API's. For an alternative Ogg solution to the one you have, try the tool: oggz codecs -- Display the codecs...