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Title: FLAC Question
Post by: lds490 on April 08, 2006, 04:43:35 PM

I should know this by now, but can somebody explain what the "align on sector boundaries" function does.  Specifically, what does it mean that 145 bytes or 222 bytes or being carried over?

Title: Re: FLAC Question
Post by: MattD on April 08, 2006, 05:00:17 PM

Align on sector boundaries is a function that splits the audio into 1/75th second blocks, which is equal to the size of a sector on a CD. This function should only be used for 16-bit/44.1 kHz audio. Those bytes are the amount of the wave being trimmed off one file and added to the next (or vice versa, I forget the implementation - I think you can even choose if you use the command line) to make the first file end on a multiple of 1/75th of a second.