[Flac-dev] Sound Font FLAC
Josh Green
jgreen at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jun 18 18:04:24 PDT 2001
Josh Coalson wrote:
>
> --- 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
>
Okay. I think I will give it a special extension then, despite that it
will be a valid FLAC file.
Josh Green
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