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> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead. P
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead.
Pack, or re-encode?
- LarsAlereon 2y agoAs I recall, it was wasn't decompressed, the MP3 data was written into a WAV file with a RIFF header. There were situations where you had a decoder available, but couldn't get your app to recognize that MP3 files were audio.
- dzidol 2y agoPack. WAV doesn't need to store header and raw PCM data (which it usually does though), it's just a container.