ralphpnj;622695 Wrote: > With respect to embedded cover art and its impact on file size I'm > fairly sure that the metadata in flac files is stored at the beginning > the file and that a certain of space is allocated for this information. > Therefore how large (in kilobytes) can embedded cover art be before it > has an impact on the overall file size? The answer is there is no answer!
When the metadata is written to a FLAC file it can be truncated right at the end of the metadata itself, or it can be written with some buffer space to allow for updates. Depending on how a FLAC file was created and what last edited it, I've had adding a single character to a track title cause a complete file re-write whereas on other occasions adding a larger image was just able to use the buffer space available. Essentially, you can trim your FLAC files down to be just the metadata, no spare room and then the music, so if you do that then of course having the image embedded is going to increase the size of the files. I don't worry about it though, even though I use high-quality artwork in my files. It's only a bit of an issue in my shadow MP3 library when I want to copy some stuff onto an iPod Nano (and quite why we have one of those is beyond me anyway) when the size of the albums limits how many you can fit on. The disadvantage of filesize was completely outweighed by the fact that SBS works perfectly with artwork in this setup, and also that my shadow MP3 library (maintained by flac2mp3) would also transfer over all the images seamlessly, which further means that iTunes automatically updates the images. And I never have to do a full clear and rescan. I couldn't have done all this with cover.jpg. -- paulster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
