[flac-dev] max size for album art?

lvqcl lvqcl.mail at gmail.com
Wed May 10 19:16:55 UTC 2017


Scott Brown <scottcbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any size limitation for album art?

Slightly less than 16 megabytes.


> I have a user who says adding large artwork (from a scanner) is  
> corrupting the file metadata. I don't >know if this is a flac  
> limitation, a tag lib issue, or something I'm doing.

AFAIK older versions of libFLAC didn't check picture filesize, but the  
current version doesn't allow to embed too big files.


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