How would one determine the specific version of the encoder ? |
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How would one determine the specific version of the encoder ? |
 Jul 11 2008, 14:49
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Is there a way to determine which specific version of an encoder was used to encode a file to .flac, .wv or .mp3 ?
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Jul 11 2008, 15:37
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QUOTE (photographer @ Jul 11 2008, 08:49)  Is there a way to determine which specific version of an encoder was used to encode a file to .flac, .wv or .mp3 ? That depends on the encoder. Foobar's property dialog can read that kind of metadata; for lame, flac, and ogg (and I think wavpack, too, though I can speak decisively about it), the encoder versions are usually visible there. Example Lame mp3: 
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Jul 11 2008, 17:20
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Jul 11 2008, 17:57
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For flac, you can use metaflac, which comes with the official flac package.
metaflac --list file.flac e.g.: QUOTE [...]
METADATA block #2 type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT) is last: false length: 261 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.1.4 20070213 comments: 10 [...] |
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