[Flac] Metadata block requirements

[Josh Coalson]

--- Ron Cococcia <ron.cococcia at request.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have recently found a number of FLAC files that have a PICTURE
> block as the first metadata block in the file.  From the format
> documentation, 
> it mentions that the STREAMINFO block must be present as the first 
> block.  I'm guessing that someone somewhere is not playing nicely
> with 
> the format, but I just wanted to confirm that this is incorrect so
> that 
> I can fix the files if they are bad.

yep, STREAMINFO must be first.  can you figure out what application
is doing that?  (maybe from the tags?)

Josh



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