[21 Jul 2008] Thank you for your help

[Juan Carlos]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:02:46 +0000 (GMT)

Hello dear friend Andreas:

Thank you, your help and found the solution to my problem, hay, these bugs are for hear the help and test resports of my friend that he has a MAC, even the bad practice of sound files without extension, a little trick for the people change the music file between mp3 or mod, the mp3 corrupt file, I don't know the cause becasue in Windows version hasn't problems, it could been with the Yahoo mailer, because sometimes with the big files always corrupt anything, and I know that I speak for some problems with geocities and other times when I sent big files or download files from mails.

Best regards Andreas and thank you for your help, much, much thanks.

(I'll post this to the list, too. Maybe it contains some valuable hints for other people, too).

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:55:27 +0200

Hello dear friend Andreas:

Thank you, your help and found the solution to my problem, hay, these bugs are for hear the help and test resports of my friend that he has a MAC, even the bad practice of sound files without extension, a little trick for the people change the music file between mp3 or mod, the mp3 corrupt file, I don't know the cause becasue in Windows version hasn't problems, it could been with the Yahoo mailer, because sometimes with the big files always corrupt anything, and I know that I speak for some problems with geocities and other times when I sent big files or download files from mails.

The corrupt ID3v1 tag was probably written by a program that doesn't conform to the standard. This happens quite often because there are so many tools available that work with mp3s... it's a real pain what is done to mp3 files with all these different tags and stuff that even allow you to link images and lyrics into the files. There are really dozens of different extensions out there and often they don't care about any standards. Normally, the mpeg parsers are quite tolerant with non-compliant data but in your case, the Mac OS API rejected the whole file just because of the corrupted ID3v1 tag.

So, as a rule of thumb: If Hollywood rejects mp3s, just remove all unnecessary data like ID3 tags, lyrics, images, etc. that is stuffed into the file. A plain mp3 with just the music in it should always work fine if it was created by a reliable encoder (there are also some encoders that write bad data but that's another story).

Also, if a mp3 works under Win32 it doesn't mean that it will work under Mac OS because Hollywood does not use a platform independent decoder. Except under Amiga, OS APIs are used to decode mp3s.

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Windows: DirectShow 
Mac OS: CoreAudio
Amiga: mpega.library

[Juan Carlos]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:45:48 +0000 (GMT)

Hallo, mein lieber Freund Andreas!

Thank you for your help and explanations, now my friend has tested the MAC version and it works well, also the problem and fault me, is think that WIndows and MAC OS are superior that Amiga OS, and well with your program the true is viceversa.

Other question is if in your web you will give support to open source or routines list or examples singles to the style of javascriptsource.com, where the Hollywood users create programs easy and fast and big projects, what is your mind?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Freund Juan Carlos.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:31:22 +0200

Hallo, mein lieber Freund Andreas!

Thank you for your help and explanations, now my friend has tested the MAC version and it works well, also the problem and fault me, is think that WIndows and MAC OS are superior that Amiga OS, and well with your program the true is viceversa.

Other question is if in your web you will give support to open source or routines list or examples singles to the style of javascriptsource.com, where the Hollywood users create programs easy and fast and big projects, what is your mind?

I've no plans for such a site. And I've no time for it either