Vorbis dev - Jan 2002 - Special metaformat for ogg-files with multiple tracks

This is just an idea and the subject basically says it all: What if there
would be some special ogg meta- (or archive-) format that allowed a single
file to contain multiple, independently playable tracks.

In it's simplest form this file would probably just be a concatenated
version of individual ogg files with some header saying where a certain
track ends and the next one starts.

Regards,
Lars


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> This is just an idea and the subject basically says it all: What if there
> would be some special ogg meta- (or archive-) format that allowed a single
> file to contain multiple, independently playable tracks.
> 
> In it's simplest form this file would probably just be a concatenated
> version of individual ogg files with some header saying where a certain
> track ends and the next one starts.
Where have you been?  All the tools have supported this since beta1!

:)

jack.

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[ Sorry for the broken follow-up, but I forgot to mention that I'm not
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> > Where have you been? All the tools have supported this since beta1!
> >
> > :)
Ah crap!  And I wanted to impress you all with this extremely innovative
idea... :)

But seriously, you're refering here to the streaming capabilities
described in (it seems to me) doc/oggstream.html, right?  If so, how well
do these map to "local uses" like a single cd encoded as an ogg-file
with
multiple tracks?  E.g.: How hard would it be to make a graphical player
display the individual tracks as if they were separate files?  Would this
require scanning the entire file for the beginning of the individual
tracks first?

And do there already exist tools to easily create and/or "un-create"
such
multi-track files?
> Though it would be useful to be able to tell ogg123 to start at stream
> number x, or play streams x through y, or time w of stream x to time y
> of stream z, etc.
>
> If there's a consensus that it's worth it (and not just more code
> bloat), I'll do it. Wow I actually might have the time to also (for
> once)!
I at least think that such a feature would be useful.

Regards,
Lars


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