[LAU] Creating a very long audio file?

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Monty Montgomery <xiphmont at gmail.com> wrote:

> Huh, you're right.
>
> Oh, i see... we've been supporting >4GB wave files in the Xiph stuff
> by setting the length to 0xFFFFFFFF and assuming the data chunk is
> last (intuiting chunk length from file length).
>

nothing about RIFF implies that the data chunk is last.  in fact, there is
no ordering at all except that the RIFF chunk is first. there are several
windows app that make this "mistake".

w64 is the format to use, and libsndfile handles it (and CAF) with
distinction.
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