2.6.1 QT audio bug

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Tue Oct 25 17:45:27 EDT 2005


Thanks for the clarification.  BTW, "Tags" does not imply XML.  The 
non-audio info in MP3s are called tags: http://www.id3.org/

At 03:48 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote:

>On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
>
>>.swa files are .mp3 files, minus some tags, so the file formats are the same.
>
>To be more accurate, the audio compression used in swa is mp3. However, 
>the file formats themselves are not identical, since, as you say, swa 
>carries additional information. "Tags" would imply that these are using an 
>XML-like format, but they aren't.
>
>All that said, *generally*, you can rename an swa to an mp3, and the 
>player will disregard the extra header and file meta-data, as you are 
>trying to do, though there is nothing to say that some types of players 
>will not be more sensitive to it.
>
>Does make you wonder what changed between Rev versions which would cause 
>the issue though.
>--
>Troy
>RPSystems, Ltd.
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