[vorbis] New beta bug reports/bug report

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Wed Aug 23 11:04:09 PDT 2000



> 
> --- Michael Smith <msmith at labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
> > 
> > >Many rippers/WAV manipulation programs stick a
> > 'junk' chunk at the end of
> > the 
> > >WAV with a little advertisement for themselves. 
> > This is not part of the
> > audio 
> > >and if another program reading that WAV file
> > doesn't expect the crap at the 
> > >end, it's processed as audio as a loud pop.
> > >
> > >Mike, this will be something else you'll need to
> > add to OggEnc's WAV 
> > >handling...
> > 
> > Ugh. I knew this was possible, but I didn't think
> > any programs were silly
> > enough to actually do it. Oh well. I guess I'll be
> 
> Is there any way whether this is the actual case? If
> it's in the WAV (saved with Goldwave) it's not in
> plain text.

Yes, goldwave does this and it is plain text within the chunk.  Look at the 
very last few hundred bytes.  For DOS people, use something that doesn't think 
\0 is EOF :-P

Monty

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