[Flac] Flac metadata at end?

[Kyungjoon Lee]

On 9/21/06, Eric Lennon Bowman <ebowman at boboco.ie> wrote:
> Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> > 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?

The reference flac encoder uses 4 kilobytes of padding for that
purpose, by default.

Cheers,
Kyungjoon Lee