Is there an obvious safe way to add some extra data to a flac file that spec decoders will happily ignore?
I'd like to explore creating a tool which will add N extra redundancy frames at the end which will allow perfect decoding with up to ~N frames lost in the files. This would allow users to sacrifice a tiny amount of compression for a substantial increase in file robustness. This would also create a new potential audience for Flac: people who don't care about file size but care substantially about file robustness. A typical flac bloated back to the original wav size could lose roughly half its blocks and still remain perfectly decodable. http://planete-bcast.inrialpes.fr/article.php3?id_article=7 has a nice high performance error correcting library which would work well for this sort of application. _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac