<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/7/3, Ralph Giles <<a href="mailto:giles@xiph.org">giles@xiph.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Harry Sack wrote:<br><br>> Can anybody tell me what the maximum filesize is for an image file to be<br>> included in a FLAC file? I'm just exploring this feature and I didn't find
<br>> this yet<br><br>The metadata block length field is 24 bits, so the upper limit is just a<br>little less than 16 MB. At least in theory, I didn't test that.</blockquote><div><br><br>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
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> PS: Does anybody know why there are so little programs that actually support
<br>> the viewing of embedded pictures? I only found 2 of them: Amarok in linux<br>> and foobar in windows.<br><br>There's not really a standard (or rather there are several) for album<br>art, and it still seems to be an advanced feature. Feel free to agitate,
<br>this is an area where the better metadata of the free formats is a real<br>advantage.<br><br> -r<br></blockquote></div><br>