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<font face="Courier New">Dear All,<br>
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1) Is there a way to get the audio size (number of samples) and
other information, such as number of channels, from a flac file
without fully decoding it? <br>
I've found that the WAV header is replicated after the "riffRIFF"
keyword, but I don't seem to be able to predict where it is
located or whether it is safe or not to asume that the first time
such keyword appears is the correct one, and if there is an upper
bound for its location; for instance, some text such as the name
of a song or some comment could contain that keyword, even if it
is unlikely. The information preceding the "reference libFLAC
1.3.3" encoder version seems to be non-text information.<br>
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2) I decode using the option --skip=0 --until=1. I would expect to
get a wav file with only 1 sample, but I get 3 samples. Stictly no
sample should be decoded since 0 samples should be skipped and the
help says: <br>
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--until={#|[+|-]mm:ss.ss} Stop at the given sample number for
each input file. The given sample number is not included in the
decoded output.<br>
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so sample #1 should not be included, unless the first sample is
sample #0, in which case only 1 sample, and not 3 samples, should
be included in the output file.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Federico Miyara <br>
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