On 11 March 05, Phil Karn wrote: > That said, the numbers I've seen tend to indicate that FLAC achieves > somewhat better compression ratios than Apple Lossless. Also, FLAC > supports Vorbis-style metatags, which I consider vastly superior
Can you point me to documentation for the Vorbis metadata? I've scanned vorbis.com and xiph.org, and I'm just not finding it. > to > either MP3 ID tags or the iTunes practice of keeping all the meta > information in a separate massive XML file. The iTunes practice isn't that simple. For mp3 files, for most things, the definitive metadata is stored in ID3 tags in the file; the information is cached in a binary file and reflected in an exported XML file. The definitive volume adjustment, equalizer, star rating, and start and stop time information is stored in the binrary file and relfected in the exported XML file. The "part of a compilation" field is confusing: as nearly as I can make out, it is initialized from the nonstandard TCMP ID3 tag, and when changed through iTunes the TCMP tag is updated; unlike all the other ID3 tags, though, changes made outside iTunes post-import are never reflected inside iTunes. -- Todd Larason | Half a pound of tupenny rice, half a pound of treacle That's 3500238865/p | the way the melody goes, pop! goes the weasle Half a pound of UIN: 7559924 | heroin, half a pound of treacle That's the way the story goes, AIM: AngelBr | out comes the evil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
