Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

[Adrian]

Thanks to you both.  Wanna here something strange. . . or maybe not.

It's the file name.

A file named Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 02 - On The Run.mp3

will not work.

I rename it to

pf-dsotm-03.mp3

and it works just fine.

I don't know why yet.  I have mp3 files which have come from the
internet which have spaces, capital letters, lower case letters,
numbers, and they work fine.

When I have time my curiosity will force me to experiment some more to
find out exactly what causes this, but for now I'm content to be
loading the thingy up with music.

Adrian



On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:34:12 -0700
darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org> wrote the words:

> quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
>  I've fairly sure metadata can
> > be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I know FLAC
> > can do this) and it's possible, albeit unlikely, that the nano only
> > works with one of those locations.
>
> MP3 Id3v1 tags are at the end, ID3v2 tags are near the begining. Some
> files have both.
>
> As for Flac, this is not true. As one who recently wrote a Ruby
> library for parsing Flac metadata (and thus read the Flac spec[1]) I
> can say that all metadata, including the VORBIS_COMMENT block are
> before the stream contents (ie: the audio bits). The various metadata
> blocks can be in arbitrary order but always before the actual music
> data.
>
> [1] http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html
>
> -d
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