[Flac-users] Re: questions about 1.1.0 release

[David W. Tamkin]

Thank you very much for the explanations, Josh.

| the seekpoints are not the only places in the stream that can
| be seeked to, they are just hints about regular locations in
| the stream.  you can still seek to any sample.  the number of
| seekpoints are just one factor in determining how fast the
| decoder can find any particular sample.  I did a lot of testing
| before deciding on -S10s.

So you can seek anywhere, but if it isn't on a stored seekpoint, the
calculation will be interpolated between the preceding and following
seekpoints?  I'll have to try it and see what happens.  Come to think of it,
what bugs me about Winamp's seeking through APEs is not so much the precision
of locating the destination as the willingness to part from the current spot;
it tends to stay where it is for a noticeable fraction of a second before
jumping, while Winamp moves immediately if it's playing a FLAC file.

| > Third, 4 KB of padding is now the default; isn't it needed a lot less
| > often than it is not needed?
|
| it depends on how you encode, if you use --tag and --cuesheet
| at encode time or later then you probably don't need it.  a
| little bit may come in handy though.

Well, does --no-padding produce a file that is about 4 KB smaller?  (Should
unpack 1.1.0 and try that for myself, I guess.)  In a boundary condition,
where the files just miss fitting onto one CDR (or N CDRs), would omitting the
padding help?

| yes, you can add padding and seekpoints with metaflac now.

Can you remove padding or seekpoints with metaflac now?

Again, Josh, thank you very much.

David