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Goals: 1. Store meta data 2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from archive. 3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with meta info intact when needed. 4. One file per song. 5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3. Questions: Q1. OGG vs FLAC container? Q2. Meta data format? Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2? Q4. What ripping/encoding

...see docs) or use a tagger afterward (see software links on main page). > Q4. What ripping/encoding software? again, this question is too general. you didn't even mention what operating system. starting points are EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de), cdex (www.cdex.n3.net), cdparanoia (xiph.org), plextools, and cdrdao. > Ideas on a clean way to safely handle malicious meta data warmly > welcomed. you mean like the id3 exploit in winamp? that's a player problem. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

>I'm currently facing the same problem. >I added the libFLAC++ libraries to my MSVC application. >I implemented the same quality levels (0-8) as used in the FLAC frontend application. >But the resulting files are remarkable different between my application and the FLAC frontend >(although using the same settings). It did turn out to be something in my byte ordering in the end