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Termyn8or -> Music file question (3/11/2009 9:51:10 AM)
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My boss claims to be an expert on music, although I have stumped him. I have basically sung a few bars and he would come up with the artist and title. This last one got him though, so one point for me.
Well now I have an extensive collection, not so much in number but in diversity. Even just in the classic rock genre I have things people say "WOW" because they haven't heard it in a long time. I mean back to when they were kids.
So I want to burn him a disk with a bunch of songs on it and see how many he can identify. It can be MP3 or an audio CD, it does not matter, but the problem is that most of these MP3s have embedded file information in them. I also know that this file information is passed on to an audio CD by EZCD 5 so no doubt newer software can do it as well.
So the problem is to strip all of this information from the file, otherwise it will just give him the answer. On an MP3 disk I could just rename the files, but the information will still show up. Certain audio CD players will just put it on the display, thus wrecking the game.
I don't have a stand alone CD recorder, although I know it would work I don't want to get one just for this purpose. I'm sure by simply using audio cables it would do it, but it seems there should be an easier way, especially without the reencoding which will no doubt result in the loss of quality, even though it might not be so bad.
I want to strip all the information, but leave the material intact. Any ideas ? Also note that these are already MP3s, I'm sure if I ripped them myself I could just tell it not to insert the onformation. I think the info is generally at the beggining of the file, and while you can lop off the end of an MP3 and have the remainder play, I don't think you can do that with the beginning of the file. Somewhere I have an old file editor, I might be able to do it manually but again I am not sure I would get viable, playable results. It's a hex editor as well, but I haven't tried to run it yet in XP, but I know 98SE bitched about it (popped up with a warning) so I am not so sure I even want to try that way, plus there may be checksums or who knows what and I just don't know how to deal with those.
Am I looking for a reripper ?
Any ideas on this that don't crash my PC are welcome :-)
T
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