[Flac-dev] feature request

[Josh Coalson]

--- Joshua Haberman <joshua at reverberate.org> wrote:
> Right now it is impossible (using the metadata API) to get metadata
> from
> a FLAC stream unless it is a file on the local disk (AFAICS).  It
> would
> be useful if there was another interface level that could provide
> read-only access to metadata by providing the data via a read
> callback. 
> This would allow metadata to be read from remote locations and in
> streaming situations.

all decoders have a metadata callback that gets called for each
metadata block.  by default the decoder only calls it for the
STREAMINFO block but you can tell the decoder to return others
with FLAC__stream_decoder_set_metadata_respond/ignore_*() calls.
see the relevant paragraph near the bottom of the detailed
description here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/api/group__flac__stream__decoder.html#_details

Josh


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