[Flac] --keep-foreign-metadata question

[Josh Coalson]

--- Martin Leese <martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> Not sure if this belongs here or in flac-dev.
> I am subscribed to both, so flop it over if fits
> better over there.
> 
> Looking at the Changelog for FLAC 1.2.1
> (17-Sep-2007), it says:
>    "With the new --keep-foreign-metadata in
>     flac, non-audio RIFF and AIFF chunks can
>     be stored in FLAC files and recreated when
>     decoding."
> 
> Where can I find more detail on what is a
> "non-audio" RIFF chunk?

it is any riff chunk that is not "fmt " or "data"

> Ambisonic ".amb" files are WAVE-EX files with
> a non-standard GUID in the 'fmt ' chunk.  I
> want to work out is this can now be preserved
> in FLAC files.  (And, I am interested in
> metadata anyway.)

this is a "fmt " chunk variation that  may or may not be
handled by flac, depending on the implementation.  I've
never heard of it before.

Josh



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