About Mp3 Sound Files

[Conflow]

Hi Forum,

Just passing on a 'little bit' of information about Mp3 Sound Files and how they are assemble

and problems experienced with Windows XP. You may not be aware that Win.Media Player

is embedded in XP and although PTE does not use the Media Player your Sound Card is still

monitored by the XP System.

Sometimes after downloading an Mp3 Media Stream or after converting a CD Track (CDDA)

to Mp3 - it may not "run" on your PC - the reason being that the Mp3 or CD music stream may be "Copyright Protected' and preclude 'copying'.

After the Napster problems a few years ago, XP is now "hyper-engineered" to specifically

check the Copyright status of ALL music played on an XP System -unfortunately- Microsoft

do not make any distinction between a genuine private user (having paid for the Music) and

others who dont wish to pay.

Audacity can get around this problem, simply import your Mp3 Sound File and re-export it

again but this time delete any references to "Tags" and select the 'gendre' as 'other' and

give it a new File name. Nero Wave Editor will do the same job.

Full Mp3 Descriptions both simple and complex can be had from www.id3.org

Brian Kelly.Conflow

[alrobin]

Just a note to add further to Brian's advice re the use of Audacity. Audition, as well as other editors, has the ability to set only the copy protection bit and leave the other tags intact.

However, if I set this bit to "copy protected", it will still play in PTE on my Win XP system.