Though I've never seen a FLAC file with any metadata at all in the wild: it's always in the filename and accompanying text files. I would end up massaging the metadata into the standard mp4 fields when I transcoded to ALAC.
In practice when I've tried seeking in a FLAC file, I usually get a short pause followed by a loud click, and then the timecode is usually wrong or missing entirely. Maybe none of the files had seekpoint data, or the player/decoder implementations I used didn't support them. ALAC always worked perfectly.
Though I've never seen a FLAC file with any metadata at all in the wild: it's always in the filename and accompanying text files. I would end up massaging the metadata into the standard mp4 fields when I transcoded to ALAC.
In practice when I've tried seeking in a FLAC file, I usually get a short pause followed by a loud click, and then the timecode is usually wrong or missing entirely. Maybe none of the files had seekpoint data, or the player/decoder implementations I used didn't support them. ALAC always worked perfectly.