Re: [libextractor] mp3 metadata inconsistency

[Heikki Lindholm]

Christian Grothoff kirjoitti:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008 01:06:45 pm Daniel Morilha wrote:
>
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > First of all, I would like to congratulates you by the excelent project
> > which LibExtractor is. I am developing a python script which iterates over
> > lots of files getting all metadata which is possible. Among all
> > possibilities I found LibExtractor as the best choice once it is great in
> > performance and accepts a widely number of different formats. Just Awesome.
> >
> > Apart from I noticed a inconsistency in mp3 metadata regarding format
> > field. For many files I'm getting 96kbps bitrate but when on iTunes and
> > Winamp they are being shown as 128kbps. I'm not sure why this is occurring
> > and I'm just reporting this bug hoping it could be fixed in a future
> > release. By the way I use the last available version 0.5.20b and also tried
> > the online report. On both I got the same 96kbps bitrate.
>
>
> I'm not sure what online report you are talking about, I cannot see anything 
> on your bugtracking system at https://gnunet.org/mantis/.
>
> Now, I've tried a few files that I had and they all show as 128 kbps.  Could 
> you either e-mail me a testfile (or upload it to Mantis) so that I can 
> investigate what the file *actually* is and where we maybe wrong in the 
> interpretation of the format (or maybe itunes/winamp are wrong, but that is 
> less likely).

I have several files, which give wrong results. I can take a look at the 
problem. Christian, was the bitstream parser copied from somewhere or 
done "by the spec"?

-- Heikki Lindholm