Files which claim to be MP3s but aren't actually MP3s
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Files which claim to be MP3s but aren't actually MP3s
Overcast's "Are You Having Fun" isn't an mp3, but an mpeg-1 layer 2 audio file. This makes it not play on a lot of portable players, including the iPod.
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Re: Files which claim to be MP3s but aren't actually MP3s
How can you tell?... Couldn't it be re-saved as an MP3?fluffy wrote:Overcast's "Are You Having Fun" isn't an mp3, but an mpeg-1 layer 2 audio file. This makes it not play on a lot of portable players, including the iPod.
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Standard format used in radio production...good compression, superior than mp3. There are tons for free converters that will create WAV or MP3 files from them.
Oh yeah, iTunes compatible, so just LAME from there, Fluffy.
Oh yeah, iTunes compatible, so just LAME from there, Fluffy.
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Roymond: Well, yeah, I've already converted it for my own collection (remember who you're talking to, here). Just saying it's a problem in the archive. I can provide a transcoded file if anyone wants it though the quality will be even lower than it is already.
Also, layer-2 is not better (doesn't it lack the psychoacoustic model which makes mp3 so useful?), and this particular file is so badly-encoded it doesn't matter anyway.
Kamakura: first off, you can tell because it won't transfer to an iPod, with an error about how it can't be played on an iPod. secondly, you can tell by looking at the file information in any player which actually shows that kind of detail (such as quicktime player, iTunes, etc.) which states that it's actually layer-2, not layer-3 which is what makes an mp3 an mp3.
The hard part was figuring out WHICH song was causing this problem, since iTunes is a bit obtuse when it comes to actually reporting errors like this (it basically just says there is an error, and gives the first error-causing song's title, without location or album or artist or whatever).
Also, layer-2 is not better (doesn't it lack the psychoacoustic model which makes mp3 so useful?), and this particular file is so badly-encoded it doesn't matter anyway.
Kamakura: first off, you can tell because it won't transfer to an iPod, with an error about how it can't be played on an iPod. secondly, you can tell by looking at the file information in any player which actually shows that kind of detail (such as quicktime player, iTunes, etc.) which states that it's actually layer-2, not layer-3 which is what makes an mp3 an mp3.
The hard part was figuring out WHICH song was causing this problem, since iTunes is a bit obtuse when it comes to actually reporting errors like this (it basically just says there is an error, and gives the first error-causing song's title, without location or album or artist or whatever).
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yeah, well, I thought it odd you were bringing it up. Now I find it odd I wasn't connecting this discussion to the archive. What with it being in "Quality Control" and all one would think I'd catch on, but hey, make no assumptions these days. I'm know it's in good hands.
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roymond wrote:Standard format used in radio production
This begs the question why is it (MP2) then used as the standard for radio production, and not MP3?fluffy wrote:layer-2 is not better (doesn't it lack the psychoacoustic model which makes mp3 so useful?)
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That's what I want to know! (But that's not <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=693">begging the question</a>.)
I think Roymond may have been confused by how in broadcast they typically use MPEG-2, not MPEG-1 layer 2 (totally different beasts). The MPEG naming scheme has always been a huge source of confusion, though; a lot of people think that mp3 is MPEG-3, but there is no such thing as that (it skips to MPEG-4, and then the next in-development standard is MPEG-7). Also, the different enumerations are more or less orthogonal anyway, MPEG-# refers to the container format, while layer-# refers to the specific CODEC being used. Layer 3 audio can be put into any MPEG file; a DivX video is specifically an MPEG-4 video with a layer 3 audio track.
For example.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, Overcast's "Are You Having Fun" is the only not-mp3 in the archive. I haven't done an exhaustive search yet though.
I think Roymond may have been confused by how in broadcast they typically use MPEG-2, not MPEG-1 layer 2 (totally different beasts). The MPEG naming scheme has always been a huge source of confusion, though; a lot of people think that mp3 is MPEG-3, but there is no such thing as that (it skips to MPEG-4, and then the next in-development standard is MPEG-7). Also, the different enumerations are more or less orthogonal anyway, MPEG-# refers to the container format, while layer-# refers to the specific CODEC being used. Layer 3 audio can be put into any MPEG file; a DivX video is specifically an MPEG-4 video with a layer 3 audio track.
For example.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, Overcast's "Are You Having Fun" is the only not-mp3 in the archive. I haven't done an exhaustive search yet though.
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You are one pedantic fluffy Porcupine!fluffy wrote:That's what I want to know! (But that's not <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=693">begging the question</a>.)
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http://begthequestion.info/ <--- a website devoted entirely to the issue.fluffy wrote:That's what I want to know! (But that's not <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=693">begging the question</a>.)
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Is that guy retarded? Why is he fucking freaking out about a phrase having two different, unrelated meanings in two different contexts? Why does he think the more esoteric, non-obvious meaning supersedes the literal meaning of the phrase (I'll assume it's because he's a pretentious douche). Hopefully he doesn't find out about the whole "I could / couldn't care less", or the entire class of words and phrases called antagonyms (where the same word or phrase has two distinct and opposing meanings in the same context), or his head might a'splode.fodroy wrote:http://begthequestion.info/ <--- a website devoted entirely to the issue.
Very simply, when people aren't talking about logical fallacies, saying "<something> begs the question: <insert question>" is perfectly grammatically correct. It means, literally, "asks for this question". It's also a type of fallacy. Does he wig out when people talk about a slope being slippery in the context of hiking? Does he demand that they stop calling rodeo dummies "Straw Men"? Does he also have a page against using "imply" to mean "suggest"?
Woah. Didn't mean to go off on a rant there, but that kind of "my definition is better than yours because I learned mine in college" bullshit is a serious pet peeve.
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Sort of. This site was the joke (specifically the Marching on Washington part). BTQ is serious, although the author obviously has some homour about it. Don't read too much anger into my post; curt and colourful phrases about his head exploding and him being a douche are mostly there to make Leaf love me. My issue with BTQ snobbery predates both of those sites, so it's more apt to read it as:fluffy wrote:the site was created in jest
or even better yet:Puce wrote:(angry ranting triggered by a site created in jest)
Yeah, that's more like it.Puce wrote:(totally awesome and accurate ranting triggered by a site created in jest)
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Is that guy retarded? Why is he fucking freaking out about a phrase having two different, unrelated meanings in two different contexts?Puce wrote:
..........Woah. Didn't mean to go off on a rant there, but that kind of "my definition is better than yours because I learned mine in college" bullshit is a serious pet peeve.
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Except, uh, Samaritans were a people who were entirely reviled back in Jesus' day. The point of the allegory was that even though someone may be a Samaritan they could still be friendly and altruistic.
Or was that your point?
Anyway, there could be other non-mp3 mp3s in the archive, and it'd be nice to be able to point those out too so that admins can replace them if so desired.
Or was that your point?
Anyway, there could be other non-mp3 mp3s in the archive, and it'd be nice to be able to point those out too so that admins can replace them if so desired.
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