[Flac-users] new stripping options

[Josh Coalson]

--- "David W. Tamkin" <dattier at panix.com> wrote:
> So the right way to do it -- it seemed to work when I tried it, at
> least -- is
> 
>  metaflac --remove-all --dont-use-padding filename.flac
> 
> ?

Yes this will remove all metadata blocks except STREAMINFO,
leaving no padding or vorbis comments even.

> I guess that these features make it more imperative than ever to
> watch the
> timestamps and not to validate a FLAC with an MD5 that is older than
> the FLAC
> is.

I don't quite follow, the above command does not affect the
internal FLAC MD5 sum... maybe you are referring to the external
sum of the entire FLAC file?

Josh


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