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Sebastian Mares

Nov 10 2003, 12:54

Hello!

The attached MP3 file is causing trouble. EncSpot will show me that the file uses padding and Winamp (because foobar2000 won't display that information) reports that no CRCs are used.
However, my Pre-Alpha version of VBSpot (which works fine with all other MP3s I tested) reports no padding, but CRC usage.

Which tools are now right and why?

PS: I should add that the first frame header is 0xFF 0xFB 0x90 0x4C while all others are 0xFF 0xFB 0x92 0x4C

getID3()

Nov 10 2003, 14:23

FF FB 90 4C = no padding, no CRC (frame length = 417 bytes)
FF FB 92 4C = yes padding, no CRC (frame length = 418 bytes)

This is normal. Quoting from http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/frame_header.html:

QUOTE

Padding bit
0 - frame is not padded
1 - frame is padded with one extra slot

Padding is used to exactly fit the bitrate.As an example: 128kbps 44.1kHz layer II uses a lot of 418 bytes and some of 417 bytes long frames to get the exact 128k bitrate. For Layer I slot is 32 bits long, for Layer II and Layer III slot is 8 bits long.

So there's no CRC on any frame (CRC should be either always present or always absent), and there is padding on some (but not all) frames. Encspot is not wrong saying that padding is used because it's used on at least one frame.

Sebastian Mares

Nov 10 2003, 15:04

Thank you for the help.

VBSpot is returning Padding = False (0) because this Pre-Alpha relies on the first frame header found.
The problem with the CRC is the following: the value for the CRC is 1 and I assumed 1 means True and 0 False, but in this case, it is the other way round.

getID3()

Nov 10 2003, 16:14

QUOTE(Sebastian Mares @ Nov 10 2003, 02:04 PM)

The problem with the CRC is the following: the value for the CRC is 1 and I assumed 1 means True and 0 False, but in this case, it is the other way round.

Yes, that's a little confusing but you have it right now.

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