[vorbis] ReplayGain support for Vorbis

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-01-15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Wilson wrote:
>
> > Before I actually run out and try it, can you tell me if this will work with
> > Ogg FLAC files?
> > Awesome news, by the way.
>
> No
>
> That's why I said ReplayGain for Vorbis :)
>
> It requires support in the file format (tagging system more specifically,
> which is in Vorbis, not Ogg) and the decoders. AFAIK FLAC has neither of
> these.
>
FLAC has a place for metadata blocks.  See
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#overview for the general picture,
full details under http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#stream.

It's very possible Josh Coalson will agree to define a ReplayGain block.
If not you can always register it at http://flac.sourceforge.net/id.html
as an application-specific block.

You can also use ID3 tags but I'm sure you don't want to...  Also I'm not
sure whether they are supported when framing flac in Ogg.  I think Josh
considered adopting Ogg framing and/or vorbis comments (currently it just
wraps the flac vebratim in ogg, AFAIK).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)

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