[vorbis-dev] oggenc broken for some types of WAV files

[Anthony Arcieri]

This thread seems to make a great case for standardizing some format tags
for storing uncompressed audio in ogg bitstreams.  It seems fairly clear
to me that Microsoft didn't do that great a job of it.

Tony Arcieri

>>
>>>
>>>The application that is creating these files is presumably buggy.
>>>
>>No.  It conforms to the spec, why presume it's someone else?
>
>As I said, every spec I've seen explicitly disallows this. You attached
>API documentation, which covers in-memory data structures. I was looking
>for _file format_ documentation, something which is completely
>different.
>
>It seems quite clearly a violation of the spec. The program creating
>them _is_ buggy.
>
>However, in the interests of compatibility with stupidity, I've made
>the changes, though I've left a strong warning against using the program
>creating them in there, since it's wrong.

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