Hi all,

I'm developing a web app and since I don't have a media server in the back end, I need to be able to precisely playback portions of mp3 files. Since most MP3s out there have a lot of "junk" in them (ID3v2 tags especially) and since it's next to impossible to play back portions of the VBR/ABR files, I've developed the following method.

1) Remove all ID3v1 & 2 tags by using tagmp3 http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/1/tagmp3.html (anything better out there?)
2) Detect what type a file is using the mp3info & if the file is not CBR,
3) transcode it using lame -b 128 (or 192)

Any suggestions/comments?

Thanks,

nik