[linux-audio-user] cart chunk writer?

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Fri Feb 9 02:23:37 EST 2007


carmen wrote:

> go back to the original AIF and WAV specs. youll find stuff 
> about the metadata chunks.

Or better yet, add it to libsndfile:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

so everyone can benefit.

> imo, its nasty. some players dont even recognize them and you get
> an audible blip where the metadata is. 

The blips are a result of crapppy software. You can't blame the WAV
format for that. There are other things that are wrong with the WAV
file format but this is not one of them.
 
Cheers,
Erik
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