Adding flac-support to kde-multimedia?
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
kde at carewolf.com
Sun Sep 7 13:46:42 BST 2003
On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:38, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:08, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > - kfile_plugin/flac (not started, should be easy since it uses ID3 like
> > mp3)
>
> The version with the .flac extension uses ID3v2 IIRC. FLAC is in the
> process of being Ogg-ified in which case it will use "Xiph comments".
> Since TagLib more or less supports these other two formats it would be
> trivial to have it work for them with FLAC.
>
The FLAC-specification states that it can be both appended with ID3v1 and
prepended with ID3v2. But even old-style FLACs can also contain optional
ogg-comments. So to be perfectly compatible, I need to first check for
ID3v1-2, and then possible ogg-comments.
`Allan
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