Re: [linux-audio-user] FLAC in OGG?

Esben Stien <b0ef@email-addr-hidden-stien.name> writes:

> Christoph Eckert <ce@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>
>> what's the advantage
>
> The container format allows you to put everything related to a project
> song inside the container.
>
> F.ex, for a song:
>
> You can store the whole session; each track and you can put every
> single sample and source code for synthesis in there. You can store a
> SVG or an image for the file and it will be the icon of the file for
> the song. You can also store images taken during the project of the
> song and also video if you want, of the recording or synthesis
> session. Maybe a commentary. You might want to throw the music video
> in there. You can have the text for the song in as well. You can set
> cue points, have menus, put the license in there, related documents
> and info.

The obvious question thats on my mind now is "Is it still
easy to actually play these files then?"
Does ogg123 play matroska containers?

> This is how free music and art should be distributed, in my
> opinion. Free music, the way I see it, should come with the source
> material and source code for whatever synthesis, notation and beat
> composition application was used. The data is very much compressed and
> lossless with flac. You can also compress it with paq if you want
> serious compression. You can put music on archive.org if bandwidth is
> a concern.
>
> A common misconception that I see, is that people consider shareable
> music as free. Free art, along the same lines as free software, should
> require the source material to be distributed along with the work, in
> my opinion.
>
> I think that music is also a functional work, because it gets me
> places.
>
> I don't mean to start a thread on what should be considered free
> music; we each differ in our view. In any case, matroska is a very
> nice container and you can pack it full of fun.
>
> On GNU/Hurd, you could have a translator for matroska, allowing you to
> browse the file like a directory.

That would be equallity easy on Linux with FUSE,
with the notable difference that Linux actually exists :-)

-- 
CYa,
  Mario