[Flac] including images
Jud White
jwhite at cdtag.com
Wed Jul 4 08:45:27 PDT 2007
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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