[Flac] including images

[Jud White]

http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_header

2^24 = 16,777,216

Harry Sack wrote:
>
>
> 2007/7/3, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org <mailto:giles at xiph.org>>:
>
>     On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Harry Sack wrote:
>
>     > Can anybody tell me what the maximum filesize is for an image
>     file to be
>     > included in a FLAC file? I'm just exploring this feature and I
>     didn't find
>     > this yet
>
>     The metadata block length field is 24 bits, so the upper limit is
>     just a
>     little less than 16 MB. At least in theory, I didn't test that.
>
>
>
> can Josh maybe confirm this? I'm planning to include some BMP images 
> of album art in my FLAC files and those files can become big very 
> quickly. So I hope somebody can tell me the upper limit for images, so 
> I don't have problems with it when I exceed a certain filesize 
> (without 'guessing' this limit). Thanks in advance
>
>     > PS: Does anybody know why there are so little programs that
>     actually support
>     > the viewing of embedded pictures? I only found 2 of them: Amarok
>     in linux
>     > and foobar in windows.
>
>     There's not really a standard (or rather there are several) for album
>     art, and it still seems to be an advanced feature. Feel free to
>     agitate,
>     this is an area where the better metadata of the free formats is a
>     real
>     advantage.
>
>     -r
>
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