Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-17 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
> >It is on purpose that the INFO tag is also written on cbr files. This is not > >a bug. > > Could you explain the purpose? It's not immediately apparent to those of us not well versed in the inner workings of the MP3 encoding process. > This tag stores some information about encoding parameter

Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-16 Thread Chris Holt
Hello, Gabriel Bouvigne, At 2002-07-16, 09:21:00 you wrote: >It is on purpose that the INFO tag is also written on cbr files. This is not >a bug. Could you explain the purpose? It's not immediately apparent to those of us not well versed in the inner workings of the MP3 encoding process. I p

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Lhomme
Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: >>Hi Steve, >>The problem was that the initial VBR tag (all zero's) was inserted into > > the > >>MP3 file for CBR files, so when the beWriteVbrTag function was not called > > at > >>the end of the encoding process you end up with an empty frame at the >>beginning of th

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-16 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
> Hi Steve, > The problem was that the initial VBR tag (all zero's) was inserted into the > MP3 file for CBR files, so when the beWriteVbrTag function was not called at > the end of the encoding process you end up with an empty frame at the > beginning of the MP3 file. It is on purpose that the I

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-15 Thread Albert Faber
ssage - From: "Steve Lhomme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 14 July 2002 ?. 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox > Albert Faber wrote: > > This is indeed a bug in Lame 3.92, the problem has been fi

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Lhomme
Albert Faber wrote: > This is indeed a bug in Lame 3.92, the problem has been fixed quite a while > ago in the CVS > repository. In addition, I patched lame_enc.dll v3.92 and is included in the > latest CDex > version (version 1.50b5). > Albert What was the bug ?

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Lhomme
Chris Holt wrote: > --- Steve Lhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Actually it's a bug of the application using the LAME DLL. At the end of >>the encoding the application should ask LAME for the VBR frame and write >>it at the start of the file. Just switch to a good LAME DLL user app :) > >

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-14 Thread Albert Faber
This is indeed a bug in Lame 3.92, the problem has been fixed quite a while ago in the CVS repository. In addition, I patched lame_enc.dll v3.92 and is included in the latest CDex version (version 1.50b5). Albert - Original Message - From: "nirv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-13 Thread Chris Holt
--- Steve Lhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually it's a bug of the application using the LAME DLL. At the end of >the encoding the application should ask LAME for the VBR frame and write >it at the start of the file. Just switch to a good LAME DLL user app :) I'm still confused as to why t

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Lhomme
Chris Holt wrote: > Dear nirv: > > > Had this problem too and found (with a hex reader) that 3.92 puts a > frame filled with zeros at the start of an MP3. The sony does not like > this and assumes the file is something other than an MP3 when it sees > the leading zeros. If you put an ID3

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox

2002-07-12 Thread Chris Holt
Dear nirv:     Had this problem too and found (with a hex reader) that 3.92 puts a frame filled with zeros at the start of an MP3.  The sony does not like this and assumes the file is something other than an MP3 when it sees the leading zeros.  If you put an ID3 v2 tag onto the file (using Lame