yep, it's 16MB. native FLAC is a lightweight container; it's not suited to storing huge amounts of metadata, better to go with FLAC-in-matroska for something like that.
--- Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/7/3, Ralph Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Harry Sack wrote: > > > > > Can anybody tell me what the maximum filesize is for an image > file to be > > > included in a FLAC file? I'm just exploring this feature and I > didn't > > find > > > this yet > > > > The metadata block length field is 24 bits, so the upper limit is > just a > > little less than 16 MB. At least in theory, I didn't test that. > > > > can Josh maybe confirm this? I'm planning to include some BMP images > of > album art in my FLAC files and those files can become big very > quickly. So I > hope somebody can tell me the upper limit for images, so I don't have > problems with it when I exceed a certain filesize (without 'guessing' > this > limit). Thanks in advance > > > PS: Does anybody know why there are so little programs that > actually > > support > > > the viewing of embedded pictures? I only found 2 of them: Amarok > in > > linux > > > and foobar in windows. > > > > There's not really a standard (or rather there are several) for > album > > art, and it still seems to be an advanced feature. Feel free to > agitate, > > this is an area where the better metadata of the free formats is a > real > > advantage. > > > > -r > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
