[Flac] Some questions

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Mon Nov 6 09:39:02 PST 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0800, Josh Coalson wrote:

>                    I think the current convention by users is to
> store lyrics in the LYRICS tag.  cover art is not part of the tags,
> it will go in the PICTURE metadata block in upcoming FLAC 1.1.3:
> http://flac.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/flac/flac/doc/html/changelog.html

Ah, cool. Is the 0x05 "leaflet page" picture type what you'd use for 
scanned liner notes?

We suggest people who want to embed artwork in ogg do so as a parallel 
stream multiplexed with the audio data, using http://wiki.xiph.org/OggMNG.
However, there's no convention for doing an entire album in an ogg file 
the way there is with flac, so we generally recommend people just put
all the tracks in a directory along with the artwork as separate files
and use the freedesktop.org .desktop file to point to the cover.

 -r


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