[vorbis] Split Ogg Files

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, dragonsfire at lineone.net wrote:

> I recently encoded a CD that had more than one song per track (Babylon5-
> Sleeping in Light). I used Cooledit to cut a track into separate WAV's,
> encoded each one separatly and then simply joined the compressed files
> together. The result was an Ogg file that played perfect in Winamp, and
> also had the proper song title displayed depending on which part of the
> track was playing. It's impressive that a file format can work like
> this.
> 
> But this is probably the wrong way of doing it, and I have just made a
> 'bad' Ogg file and the decoder is working around any problems in the
> file.

No, this isn't a bad file.  If I recall correctly, players are *supposed* to
support this because the format specifically allows this.  It makes streaming
multiple songs much easier.


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Stan Seibert

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