[Flac-dev] Sound Font FLAC

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 18 14:51:04 PDT 2001


--- Josh Green <jgreen at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Regarding the sound font compressor I'm creating. I am thinking of
> naming it simply "Sound Font FLAC" (Sound Font Free Lossless Audio
> Codec) with a file extension of .sfflac (any other suggestions?). Or
> do
> you think I should just keep the .flac extension? Someone mistaking
> the
> file for a regular FLAC file would get a single sample (which is
> actually multiple back to back 16 bit samples) which seems alright.

Hmm... I guess it's your call.  If you will be doing all the
non-audio stuff in FLAC metadata blocks then technically it
is still a valid FLAC file, but there's nothing wrong with
using a different extension to differentiate it and avoid
confusion.

Josh


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