On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:09:23PM +0200, Michael Core wrote:
> Julio Merino wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:52:19PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > Do you know of a NetBSD compatible software which would let me split
> > > big mp3 files (essentually, cut extra stuff at the beginning and end
> > > of file) without decompressing and compressing the files (which lowers
> > > the quality)?
> > I'm just working in such a program ;) But for now, I'm only adding
> > support to wav files because I haven't found a decent documentation
> > about MP3 :( If you have any point to it...
> Read the ISO/IEC 11172-3 standard (rather expensive).
> Analyse the sources of MAD or mpg123 (cheap, but maybe more difficult).

The problem could also be solved if you could just move to Ogg Vorbis.
All open specifications, info and reference code :-)

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