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hello, does anyone know if there are variants of the mp3 codec ..... meaning, if i am ftping some mp3s onto my machine, and they are unreadable, is it a typical problem that mp3s are unreadable crossplatform? i've never run into it before... i am working on a powermac, and all mp3s downloaded using fetch appear as quicktime mp3 files, but are unreadable by any mp3 player. is there a fix for this? matt -------------- matthewd.mercer ********** mmercer@kent.edu http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mmercer/ http://www.mp3.com/systm ++++++++ "and one must _never_ put the tourniquet around the neck, no matter how bad the nosebleed is...." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

encoding issue? I mean to clarify that. The MP3 encoding is not the problem, it's the binary encoding (binhex, macbinary, etc) that Fetch is either not decoding or decoding when it's not supposed to....again, use RAW BINARY transfers....

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> ---------- > From: mthw.d.mrcr > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:41 PM > To: idm@hyperreal.org > Subject: [idm] mp3 question > > hello, > > does anyone know if there are variants of the mp3 codec ..... meaning, if > i am > ftping some > mp3s onto my machine, and they are unreadable, is it a typical problem > that > mp3s are > unreadable crossplatform? i've never run into it before... i am working on > a > powermac, > and all mp3s downloaded using fetch appear as quicktime mp3 files, but are > > unreadable > by any mp3 player. is there a fix for this? > > > matt > > > -------------- > > matthewd.mercer > ********** > mmercer@kent.edu > http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mmercer/ > http://www.mp3.com/systm > ++++++++ > "and one must _never_ put the tourniquet around the neck, no matter how > bad the nosebleed is...." > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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matt,,,,,sounds like your filez got "cooked" the file gets truncated and generally scrambled...this works most of the time...try it! best, ric http://www.room101.net/links/software/uncook95.exe _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

If you want to make sure this doesn't happen anymore... use transmit instead of Fetch... It's more basic but it won't fail you... Besides you could use Uncook (I'm not sure it would work in this case though), but I don't think it was ever released for Mac... :-/ Personally, i've had the same problem a few years ago and I unfortunately never managed to make these files work either... :-/ Sorry. Topher. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

\\ you've downloaded a suitably hard-to-get and unlistenable idm mp3 its 7.37 minutes long at 523kbps your media player thinks its only 3.26 minutes long you want your player to understand the true length of the track but you don't know how // --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Bim Ricketson & Genevieve Dugard wrote:

quoted 5 lines you've downloaded a suitably hard-to-get and unlistenable idm mp3

> you've downloaded a suitably hard-to-get and unlistenable idm mp3 > its 7.37 minutes long at 523kbps > your media player thinks its only 3.26 minutes long > you want your player to understand the true length of the track > but you don't know how

Is that a trick question? Solution: you scrap Media Player and use either Sonique or WinAmp, as Media Player is dumb as a brick when it comes to variable bit rate MP3s... (I assume it's Windows Media Player we're talking about...) -- Kurt Bernhard Pruenner --- Haendelstrasse 17 --- 4020 Linz --- Austria .......It might be written "Mindfuck", but it's spelt "L-A-I-N"....... np: Speedy J - Drill (A Shocking Hobby) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org