Re: Converting Mp3 files

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ID3 headers stay the same size. The tag size varies. I can see the relationship between your previous discussion and this. It took me about an hour to modify my existing media player application to provide the option of stripping the album art when copying for CDs for my truck. By the way, it's a factory Chevrolet CD player with MP3 capabilities.

I think it is probably time to drop support for anything that would fit the category "everything based upon the old NEC(?) implementations". Just as WMA has evolved, it is time for WMP to evolve.

In the Vista groups where people complain about how different Vista is from what people expect, I keep saying that it is great that Vista is different. I just wish they had ignored compatibility with anything other than the very latest generation of hardware. Can you imagine how great of an OS Microsoft could develop if they took everything they've learned in 30 years along with the very latest hardware?

Could you imagine how great of a media player they could build, too?

I'd love to see both.

Dale

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Not that it, at least for now, helps much but my solution to that was to write an application that creates random sets of media with the set size determined by the user. It copies those items to another folder, removing the album art because my truck can't read tags with my 480x480 pixel album art in them.

I think everything based upon the old NEC(?) implementation chokes on WMA files with >200 pixel album art in the header - I think that powered about 95% of the first many years of WMA-capable devices. I'm not sure what your truck has (I've got a Pioneer P8(?) in my ollllld truck), but if it's choking on 480x480 it's probably a header size issue, which directly relates to our other discussions.

-Zach
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