[Flac-dev] Apple's Core Audio File container format

Erik de Castro Lopo erikd-flac at mega-nerd.com
Tue Jul 12 01:55:29 PDT 2005


Avuton Olrich wrote:

> I'm sorry, but what are the advantages to the different containers, or
> this container in particular? I mean this is nothing different than
> flac/OggFlac,

The nice thing is that this single container format can hold audio
data in a number of different encodings. This is also true for
Ogg, but I don't think its true for the FLAC container format.

> which are little to none from what I've read (around hydrogenaudio),

Do you have a link? I googled but couldn't find anything.

Erik
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