[vorbis] problem with id3 tags

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Han Boetes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just had a problem that is not described in the faq and it was quite
> hard to find the right fix so I wanted to send it here, hoping it will
> be added to the faq.
>
> The error message is the same as in:
>
>   http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200210/0073.html
>
>   Warning: Hole in data found at approximate offset 5238000
>   bytes. Corrupted ogg.
>
> In this case it was caused by id3tags added by grip. Using id3v2
> (http://id3v2.sf.net) to remove the tags fixed this problem.
>
> id3v2 -d *.ogg
> id3v3 -s *.ogg
>

This is hardly FAQ material; however, this would be an excellent sample
error message for a "how to save your stupid software from itself" section
in a different document. Thanks for bringing this problem (and solution!) to
our attention.

        Nathan

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