Vidur Apparao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> For FLAC embedded cuesheets, we should be able to get exact seekpoints 
> from the STREAMINFO header. This header is easily parseable in Perl - in 
> fact Michael Turner recently added seekpoint parsing code to our FLAC 
> formatting package.  For external cuesheets, however, a 
> time-to-byte-offset calculation is necessary. This translation is fairly 
> hairy as it is (it involves an initial guess based on bitrate and then 
> frame parsing to find the exact point), and has the potential to be slow 
> in Perl. That being said, our longer term solution may be to implement 
> the seeking code entirely in Perl - it just hasn't happened yet.

So...rather than calling FLAC to transcode to support external cuesheets, why 
not call METAFLAC to embed the cuesheet?  (just kidding..)

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