On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:45:45 > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how to select part of old mp3 and create new one > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 12:30:48PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I wonder, would recoding the file put a proper header on any new file > > created? If not, do any tools exist capable of syntax checking an mp3 > > file with a missing header and then adding a proper header to that mp3 > > file? > > Depending on what you (or your software) considers to be a "header": > If it's the ID3 stuff, then something like exiftool might do the > trick. If you mean /strictly/ MP3 headers, then MP3 seems to be > a multi-headed monster (each frame has a header [1], and I doubt any > frame would really make sense without one) > > Cheers > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#File_structure > -- t > I wonder what file (1) has to say about longwind's old mp3 file? Is file more capable than that package longwind used and got no header error?
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