Subject: Re: [ecasound] Problem with MP3 files
From: S. Massy (theanaloguekid@tak.net.dhis.org)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 01:25:23 EEST
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, William Goldsmith wrote:
> > Anyway, the answer to the problem is in a post I sent a few weeks ago.
> > Your file is a proof of this: the first legible header is at the 2138th
> byte.
> > As ecasound only parses the first 1024 bytes of the file for a header it
> > finds none and therefore assumes wrongly that this file isn't a true mp3
> file.
> >
> Is that due to the presence of an ID3v2 tag?. Is there an easy tweak to
Well, the tag is at the beginning, isn't it? I suppose it pushes the first header further in the file, yes.
> ecasound so that it reads further into the file?
Actually, as a very crude hack, you could just visit ./libecasound/layer.cpp and just change the numbers there so that a bigger chunk of the file is parsed.
>
> -bg
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