Re: --skip and --until with total sample count of 0

Martijn van Beurden <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:35:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.compression.flac.devel
Message-ID <CADQbU6_vV-waVRk+Dpp-MjUX7aV8iSYCUF21xZgvhmTGSS7bZg@mail.gmail.com>
> On 18 Jun 2025, at 08:33, brianw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You can't get rid of --skip and --until
>
> All of the file formats that the flac command line supports are limited to 4 GB or 2 GB

Wave64 and RF64 support files up to several exabytes of data. So, that
isn't true.

> p.s. Note that it's a common practice for recorders and players to deal with file size
> limits by allowing a switch between files without dropping any samples. Within the
> context of that common behavior, --skip and --until are not "editing" commands, but
> merely a tool for lossless concatenation of audio.

Yet, concatenation is something that the flac tool doesn't support.
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