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 parameters,

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 INFO

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 the MP3 file.

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

2002-07-15 Thread Albert Faber
- 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 fixed quite a while ago in the CVS

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

2002-07-14 Thread Albert Faber
] Sent: 12 July 2002 ?. 8:33 AM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] Problem with Lame 3.92 dll and Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox After several tests, I've found that encoding an mp3 with LAME 3.92 will make it unreadable in the Sony ZS-X3CP Boombox mp3 player. 3.88 worked just fine. Normalization, Stereo, 192, etc. Doesn't

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 :) I'm still

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 v2 tag

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 this

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 or