[Lame-dev] Fwd: Re: Fwd: FW: your server misidentifies 128k files as VBR!

[r3mix.net <me...@r3...>]

never say never. :D

This is a forwarded message
From: Jason Wieland <ja...@mp...>
To: me...@r3... <me...@r3...>
Date: Monday, September 10, 2001, 10:21:27 PM
Subject: : FW: your server misidentifies 128k files as VBR!

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Hello Roel,

We currently use MP3::Info (in cpan) to decide that type of mp3 it is.  And
you are right, it is reading the mp3 wrong.  

We are moving toward a program called mp3_check
http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3_check/

Which indentifies it correctly.  None the less we will fix it.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: r3mix.net [mailto:me...@r3...]
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:42 PM
> To: sug...@mp...; web...@mp...
> Subject: your server misidentifies 128k files as VBR!
> 
> 
> Hello mp3.com,
> 
> I'm one of the developers of the LAME mp3 encoder.
> 
> Since recently, it adds an valid information frame to CBR mp3 files.
> 
> I got word from one of our users your server wrongly identifies these
> 128kbit/s as VBR mp3 files.
> 
> I can guarantee all these files are NOT vbr files at all.
> 
> Please try to fix the algoritms on your server so people can continue
> to upload LAME encoded files on your server.
> 
> All future LAME versions will contain this tag by default, so I really
> hope this issue will be resolved.
> 
> You can find such an mp3 file here:
> 
> http://home-4.worldonline.be/~ir003570/f.mp3
> 
> it contains all valid 128kbit/s frames from start to end, so is per
> definition a CBR 128 file.  Yet, it is identified as a vbr one.
> 
> Thank you and Best regards,
>  Roel from r3mix.net                          mailto:me...@r3...
> 
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