[Flac] Flac metadata at end?

[Eric Lennon Bowman]

Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 8:56 pm, Alex Jones wrote:
>
>   
>> I think the consequences outweigh the benefits. Having metadata at the
>> beginning of the file serves as metadata and gives you important
>> information such as expected stream length. Pushing this to the back for
>> the sake of making tag updates quicker seems a bit of a bad move to me -
>> how often do you re-tag your files?
>>
>>     
>
> Reasonably often.  I keep adding more information in dribbles every time I go 
> to look something up on the cd case.  What was the rationale behind putting 
> the data most likely to change at the start of the file?
>   

What about pre-allocating a chunk of space at the front of the file, so
that one could shuffle around, add, delete metadata without having to
futz the entire file?

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