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Fishy audio metadata

Saturday, February 14, 2009 ★ 19:48 ★ Category Misc

I’m delighted to find out that both FLAC and ID3v2 explicitly have support for the only picture type that really matters, namely that of a bright(ly) coloured fish. Both the ID3v2 specification (section 4.14) and the FLAC format specification (see METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE) reserve picture type 0x11 for a picture of a fish. Though one can also embed pictures in Ogg/Vorbis, the Ogg Vorbis Comments specification does not explicitly list it, but to make up for this omission that page displays a colored fish (the Xiph logo) on the top of the page.

Is it just me, or is something fishy going on here?

Update: One of my gentle readers pointed out that it’s probably a red herring...