[ogg-dev] Fixing ogg vorbis corruption caused by bad metadata

Adam Rosi-Kessel adam at rosi-kessel.org
Wed Jul 15 12:39:31 PDT 2009


Martin Leese wrote, on 7/15/2009 3:29 PM:
> Adam Rosi-Kessel<adam at rosi-kessel.org>  wrote:
>
>> So I've written a script to do the following:
> ...
>
> I have got lost.  Did you manage to identify the
> rogue software that corrupted the files in the
> first place?  In the greater scheme of things,
> fixing this (prevention) is more important than
> repairing the files (cure).

Yes, it was Mediamonkey. They claim that it was due to a bug in vorbis 
libraries. The latest development version (yet to be released) 
supposedly has fixed the bug. I haven't been able to get any more detail 
about what they think the bug was or how it was fixed.

Adam


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