[Flac] including images

[Josh Coalson]

yep, it's 16MB.  native FLAC is a lightweight container; it's not
suited to storing huge amounts of metadata, better to go with
FLAC-in-matroska for something like that.

--- Harry Sack <tranzedude at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2007/7/3, Ralph Giles <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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