jeremy brand wrote: > > Dear Artemis3, > > > Blah, and its stupid since there are no real benefits because > > the file size remain the same. This person is afraid of > > something... Maybe embarassed with the project name... > > That is not it at all. For example, I like wearing high quality clothing, > but I don't like it's name and what size it is to be plastered on the > front of that article of clothing. This person (me) is not affraid of the > project at all, on the contrary, I am rather impressed by it. I am > completely re-making my mp3 collection from CD source with lame instead of > Fraunhofer. > > What (may I ask) is the _real_ (as you say) benefit of having the version > tag in the mp3 frames?
So that you ( or anybody else who get the file in his hands ) know what encoder was used to produce the mp3 file. Some people actually want to know this. They want to know this so much , that they even wrote a program to analyze a mp3 file and guess which encoder was used to make it. ( see EncSpot at http://www.guerillasoft.com/Encspot/ ). At least with lame , it has not to guess , but can read the exact info. If it was my decision , not only the encoder name, but its exact version, build options, build environment ( OS type, compiler type and version ) and the options used to encode the mp3 file would all be saved in the mp3 file. > Convince me! That would save me a lot of time applying and modifying my > patch every time there is a new LAME version in CVS. However, until I am > convinced of some practical reason to have them in there, I will not > change my mind. > > BTW, since we are talking about it, there is a new patch here: > > http://hackor.com/misc/no_graffiti_frames_2001_10_01-01.diff > > I've taken comments from this list and applied them. > > Sincerely, > Jeremy > > -- > / Jeremy Brand, B.S. \ Sr. Software Engineer / > / phone://39-34-853-23988 \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / > / http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html / > / "LINUX is obsolete" -- Andy Tanenbaum, January 29th, 1992 / > / Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ / > > -- > MP3 ENCODER mailing list archive is at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mp3encoder%40minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/ -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list archive is at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mp3encoder%40minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/
