[linux-audio-dev] file format

[Alfons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:08:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 01:02 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote:
> > > The alternative is of course to have separate WAV files and some
> > > text file for the metadata, and combine all of this into a directory
> > > that would then be handled as a unit. But I'd prefer to have all
> > > data in a single file.
> > 
> > tar? (paul runs for cover ...)
> 
> Actually a zip file plus manifest (aka jar or mozilla xpi) is an ok
> solution, they can be "mounted" by the application and have files pulled
> out, whereas tar files have to be unpacked to /tmp or similar.

Reading tar files directly is easy enough - emacs does it for example.
Any libs for jar / xpi ? My main objection to both would probably be that
it's just a bit too easy to create them using 'general' tools only.
I want to avoid incompatible parts being put together accidentally.
That's also the main reason for preferring a single file over a directory.

> For the metadata an ASCII encoding of RDF (eg. turtle) would be ideal, but
> then you knew I was going to say that ;)

I knew :-) I had already typed the line "No RDF please !" in my post, but
then I considered "it's such a long time we heared anything from Steve",
so I left it out :-).


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