Posted by dadiOH on 09/24/06 18:28

dmeglio wrote:
>> All MP3s are encoded waves. Perhaps you are referring to RIFF wave
>> files which can have various types of compression including MP3?

> Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Essentially, what I ultimately
> want to do is build something in C# that will take a .wav that
> contains MP3 encoded data and convert it to a .mp3. My major
> question is, is this possible without decoding/reencoding the MP3
> data? This is important because if I need to reencode (without an
> ACM codec) then I need to pay the fun patent license fee.

You don't have to convert it, it is *already* MP3. What happens if
you just rename it with an mp3 extension? Worst case is having to
remove the RIFF header.


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