[Flac] Flac] Where Cover Art?

Martin Leese martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org
Thu Jan 20 12:44:14 PST 2011


"Santiago Jimeno" wrote:

> Flac files, as us knows, follows the Vorbis Tags system included in block 4
> Recently Vorbis has established the possibility to include picture files by
> means of 2 Tags:  COVERARTMIME AND COVERART.
> To work therewith is quite easy.

No. this in incorrect.  The VorbisComment
"COVERART" was only ever unofficial, and
has been deprecated in favour of
"METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE".  (I have
never heard of "COVERARTMIME".)  Please
see:
https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment#Unofficial_COVERART_field_.28deprecated.29

> However Flac stores picture files in block 6. The edition (to add and to
> modify Tags and pictures simultaneously in two separate blocks) becomes a
> difficult and tedious task in comparison with the easiness of Vorbis
> handling .

The intention was never for the same picture
file to be included twice (once in a
VorbisComment and again in a FLAC
METADATA_BLOCK, confusingly also called
"METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE").

> I think the current situation is an error. No Tags type acts this way,
> except Matroska.
> Would not it be better for Flac to follow Vorbis approach, including covert
> art in block 4 and to abandon the insertion of pictures in block 6?

The current situation is not in error, as such,
but is ambiguious.  There clearly needs to be
some official guidance on the preferred
location for picture files in FLAC streams.

> Another question. Where a Tag should be included with song lyrics?

Regards,
Martin
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Martin J Leese
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