Posted by NRen2k5 on 09/24/06 20:57

dadiOH wrote:
> 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.

You'd have to remove the RIFF header. Which is fine - CDex does a fine
job of going between RIFF-WAV and MP3 and vice-versa. There is also a
program dedicated to the task, called WaveMP3.

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