[Flac-dev] flac ogg quicktime iTunes

[Josh Coalson]

--- Dustin Byford <dustin at firein.net> wrote:
> On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Josh Coalson wrote:
> 
> >> This also brings up another question, at what point (if any) does
> the
> >> integration between flac and ogg allow us to extend or generalize
> the
> >> ogg qt component to deal with vorbis and flac content instead of
> >> writing an independent flac qt component.
> >
> > interesting idea.  I glanced through the vorbis qtcomponent a
> > while back and it seemed tightly integrated, i.e. not much
> > separation between the ogg and vorbis layers.
> >
> 
> What is the future of flac as a container?  Ideally, should I be 
> heading toward the generalized ogg component or would the flac 
> component be more appropriate?

native flac will continue to exist.  if all you are doing is
storing audio for archival and playback I don't see any advantage
to ogg flac.  if it's any consolation native flac is what I use
to back up my 600+ CDs.

Josh


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