[Flac] Some questions

[Josh Coalson]

--- Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I these questions are copied from a forum and perhaps you can help me
> to answer them.
> 
> I) For some codecs (I think MP3 for example) there was that issue
> that
> you have different sample/frame/whatever lenghts than in raw/wav
> encoding, thus if you encode a file to mp3 the lenght is not exact
> and some digital silence is added.
> Is the same thing the case with flac (thus the original file would be
> modified)?

no.

> II) As im using index-based ripping (and want to store my files in
> like
> this) I have some wave files that are very small (e.g. 34 frames only
> or even less).
> 
> Is it possible at all to have such small flac files?

yes.

> III) I've read about the CUEsheet feature of flac where you can store
> the data of cuesheets (at least indices and so) as searchpoints in
> flac.
> But the format seems to be in milliseconds while in CDDA frames are
> exact.
> Is it (because one would have rounding errors) not adivsable to use
> this
> feature, and store one big flac file with those cue information
> transformed into searchpoints in flac?

FLAC's internal cuesheets store the track and index offsets as
sample numbers, so there is no rounding error:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#cuesheet_track

the cuesheet parser in flac/metaflac requires min:sec:frame
time signatures for CD audio and converts those to sample
numbers.

Josh



 
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