Esben Stien <b0ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Christoph Eckert <ce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
