On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:52, Takehiro Tominaga wrote: > From: Gavin Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [mp3encoder] mp3 downsampling > Date: 29 Dec 2004 16:36:25 +0800 > > > Why do you think an encoder that preserves the ID3 tags when > > downsampling mp3 (or even down from ogg or wav to mp3, etc) > > gives a problem with encoder stability? I know little, but imagined > > that it would involve only preserving the start/part of the file where > > the ID3 is stored? > > It needs file io and seek. If the input/output is non-seekable file, > we need some error handling, which is likely to be buggy. > > ID3 tags may be 2^31 byte. Handling such large data may lead a bug. > > And, there're these bugs in LAME4. > > > If you think it is easy, why don't you write it yourself and send us > a patch :) ? We always welcome such contribution.
Sorry you took offense at my follow-up question. I didn't presume it was easy I just asked "why?". As for contributing a patch, I said in my last post, "I know little". I guess I will just have to re-rip (rather than downsample, the 100 or so CDs I want on disk if I want smaller files _and_ ID3 tags. Seems that I can't have both without doing that. Groan :^( Regards, Gavin. _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list mp3encoder@minnie.tuhs.org http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
