--- Christoph Anton Mitterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I these questions are copied from a forum and perhaps you can help me > to answer them. > > I) For some codecs (I think MP3 for example) there was that issue > that > you have different sample/frame/whatever lenghts than in raw/wav > encoding, thus if you encode a file to mp3 the lenght is not exact > and some digital silence is added. > Is the same thing the case with flac (thus the original file would be > modified)?
no. > II) As im using index-based ripping (and want to store my files in > like > this) I have some wave files that are very small (e.g. 34 frames only > or even less). > > Is it possible at all to have such small flac files? yes. > III) I've read about the CUEsheet feature of flac where you can store > the data of cuesheets (at least indices and so) as searchpoints in > flac. > But the format seems to be in milliseconds while in CDDA frames are > exact. > Is it (because one would have rounding errors) not adivsable to use > this > feature, and store one big flac file with those cue information > transformed into searchpoints in flac? FLAC's internal cuesheets store the track and index offsets as sample numbers, so there is no rounding error: http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#cuesheet_track the cuesheet parser in flac/metaflac requires min:sec:frame time signatures for CD audio and converts those to sample numbers. Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
