Re: Album format

Jon Colverson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Farmer, Joseph - DFI wrote:
> I was thinking about encoding an entire CD into 1 file.  It would
> take a header and some more information (I've started to look at
> the format) but would be pretty easy.  The tracks would be encoded
> with Flac (default) but Ogg (or any encoder for that matter) would
> be possible.  CD and Track information would be included to "reverse"
> the process and make a CD.  Scans of cover art are allowable.  

Josh Coalson (FLAC developer) has already done some work on something 
like this:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=4646

The standard is there, but it isn't yet supported by the FLAC plugins 
for XMMS and Winamp. I don't know if there is encoder front-end support 
for it yet.

-- 
Jon
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