[Flac-dev] what/why ogg-flac ?

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 20 20:56:02 PDT 2002


--- David Collett <jg at webone.com.au> wrote:
> Hello again all,
> I am confused by the ogg option in flac.
> Why has this feature been added? what does it allow you to do?
> Is it easier to tag or stream or something ?
> Can someone give me a practical example of where you might want to
> have
> ogg-flac files rather than plain flac?

I originally thought it might make it easier to stream 
FLAC through tools that only recognized ogg as a transport
layer. 

People have suggested to drop native flac and just use
ogg-flac but I'm not decided on that.

Josh


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