Posted by NRen2k5 on 10/12/05 15:17

On 10/11/2005 12:21:10 PM, "dadiOH" wrote:
>mcp6453 wrote:
>> Recently I saw a free utility that allows you to see what encoder was
>> used to encode an MP3 file. Now I am unable to remember what I saw or
>> where I saw it. Can someone suggest such a utility? I've tried MP3 Tag
>> and Ufony.
>
>You are probably talking about EncSpot. It *guesses* at the encoder, is
>*not* accurate.
>
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>dadiOH
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>

Indeed. It is not accurate at all.

However, for detecting LAME MP3's, it's very accurate, because it reads an ASCII part of the file to determine which version of LAME was used.

- NRen2k5

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