You should try to encode text files as raw pcm files, because they lack a wav header ;-) At least this avoid the complaint about corrupt files. And if your quality setting is good enought you might be able to decode a somewhat readable text file. martin
dipankar das wrote: > I am reporting a queer and funny thing about 'lame' and text files. > > I ran 'cdparanoia' on an audio cd and kept the details in a file called > music.txt in the same directory. Then ran 'lame -V 0 -q 0' on every i in the > directory, though, by mistake, in place of '*.wav' i ran it on '*'. > > And the queer thing is, i got all the wav-s into mp3-s, but also a file > called > 'music.txt.mp3'. And, when tried to run mpg123 on it, it said the file is > corrupt, obviously. > > The sad thing is, when i decoded this 'music.txt.mp3' with lame, i did not > get > the original text file, i got 'music.txt.mp3.wav', and which was, again > obviously, reported as corrupt by 'mplayer'. > > _______________________________________________ > mp3encoder mailing list > mp3encoder@minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder -- ------------------------------------- Prof.Dr.Martin Ruckert Munich University of Applied Sciences FB07 Mathematics and Computer Science Lothstrasse 34 D-80335 Munich GERMANY _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list mp3encoder@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
