Nicholas Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 8:56 pm, Alex Jones wrote: > > >> I think the consequences outweigh the benefits. Having metadata at the >> beginning of the file serves as metadata and gives you important >> information such as expected stream length. Pushing this to the back for >> the sake of making tag updates quicker seems a bit of a bad move to me - >> how often do you re-tag your files? >> >> > > Reasonably often. I keep adding more information in dribbles every time I go > to look something up on the cd case. What was the rationale behind putting > the data most likely to change at the start of the file? >
What about pre-allocating a chunk of space at the front of the file, so that one could shuffle around, add, delete metadata without having to futz the entire file? -- Eric Lennon Bowman BoboCo Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boboco.ie/ebowman/pubkey.pgp +35317979094 _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
