Hi all,
Currently I'm looking for users of the --keep-foreign-metadata feature
of FLAC. There has been some improvement of this feature in FLAC
1.4.0. Since 2007 there has been a warning in FLAC that
--keep-foreign-metadata is a new feature. I think removal of this
warning is long overdue, but the
Martijn,
I'm a user of the feature. My case usage is the following; I record
speech and music with a digital recorder (Zoom H4n) which uses a special
wav format version including BEXT information, a kind of metadata
including, for instance the device used to create the wav file. As I
then proces
Op zo 30 okt. 2022 om 19:05 schreef Federico Miyara :
> The feature works properly most of the time. The only exception is when one
> tries to decode, enabling the feature, something that hasn't been encoded
> enabling the feature (for instance, if when encoding I forgot enabling it).
> In that
I use this feature whenever archiving audio files created by specific hardware,
where the metadata might be important to retain for the future. There are also
specific software examples where added metadata is important to preserve.
I have not looked into the details, so I can't give an opinion
- There is a generally-accepted industry practice concerning these
extra chunks that points out that it's problematic to preserve all
types of chunks when editing the audio. For example, a visual overview
or a cue list might easily become incorrect if the audio is changed.
Of course, there ar
