[flac-dev] Looking for users of --keep-foreign-metadata

[Martijn van Beurden]

Op wo 2 nov. 2022 om 13:48 schreef Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1 at gmail.com>:
> Perhaps an option --force-stored-foreign-metadata could be added to
> have FLAC blindly use the foreign metadata chunks and data chunk
> headers. I think this might result in invalid files (wrong chunk
> sizes) in corner cases, for example when a FLAC file has been altered
> (shortened/lengthened) but the chunks haven't been updated. I think
> that might be the reason for the current behaviour.
>

Perhaps the middle ground here is to let FLAC output as it does now,
but warn the users when it differs from what is stored?