On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:08:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 01:02 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote: > > > The alternative is of course to have separate WAV files and some > > > text file for the metadata, and combine all of this into a directory > > > that would then be handled as a unit. But I'd prefer to have all > > > data in a single file. > > > > tar? (paul runs for cover ...) > > Actually a zip file plus manifest (aka jar or mozilla xpi) is an ok > solution, they can be "mounted" by the application and have files pulled > out, whereas tar files have to be unpacked to /tmp or similar.
Reading tar files directly is easy enough - emacs does it for example. Any libs for jar / xpi ? My main objection to both would probably be that it's just a bit too easy to create them using 'general' tools only. I want to avoid incompatible parts being put together accidentally. That's also the main reason for preferring a single file over a directory. > For the metadata an ASCII encoding of RDF (eg. turtle) would be ideal, but > then you knew I was going to say that ;) I knew :-) I had already typed the line "No RDF please !" in my post, but then I considered "it's such a long time we heared anything from Steve", so I left it out :-). -- FA
