Here's a mailing list exclusive: the following URL leads to a pre-release version of the MAD plug-in.
http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/in_mad-0.12.3b-pre1.zip
This version includes a special "Statistics" tab in the file info dialog
for
the currently playing song.
This tab confirmed that the file I'm using to test resistance of decoders is a big winner in the "broken mp3" contest. It's really impressive how it's bad:
decoded frames: 13551 clipped samples: 4941 peak clipping: "Attenuate" attenuated the file by -16.7 dB sync errors: 36 crc errors: 1 (but there is NO crc in the file) other errors: 88
If one day you need an highly broken mp3, I've got a good one. Btw several errors in this file can be repaired by hands, using an hex editor. It would be nice to have a decoder able to do the same thing automatically.
Regards,
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