[Flac-dev] Detecting FLAC file type

Martin Leese martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org
Tue Oct 6 13:29:27 PDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Shayne Wissler <wissler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Martin Leese
> <martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
...
>> For Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC, see:
>> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIMETypesCodecs#Codecs_Parameter
>
> Isn't this meta information used in e.g. email and HTML? I don't think
> it will help vet a standalone file. In any case, I already have a
> solution with the OGG API's.

I was pointing you towards the Codec Identifier
column (which are stream magic numbers).

Regards,
Martin
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