Weird ID tags

[ryan]

I downloaded an mp3 from a website, when I played it, it locked winamp up. I looked at the ID tags and the IDv2 and v3 were both filled with the same stuff. I removed the v3 tags since the v2 had the exact same thing, and removed the album (it was just the place the song was played) and it played fine after that.

Why would the ID tags cause it to lock up winamp?

[Mr Jones]

I once downloaded a Moby track and it had a porn picture embedded in it, I figured it was a picture of old baldy himself, turned out to be something different altogether, was still bald tho....

/no relevance, just thought I'd share that...

[fwgx]

did you manage to recreate it?
What happened in other players?
did just resaving the id tags with making no changes sort it too?
Redownload it (not using a cached version) and see if the same happens again.

Perhaps it was a bad bit on a disc or the file was slightly corrupted which was fixed when you rewrote the file.

[ryan]

I can recreate it.
It played fine in MP classic.
Resaving the tags didn't fix it.
Redownloaded it still does it.
I fixed it by removing the tags though

[fwgx]

Maybe a funny charachter or a line break?

Does it display properly in the playlist before you play it and only crash when you start it playing?
How many ostriches does it take to milk a horse?

[WHCode RED]

how was there a picture embedded in a mp3?

[Mr Jones]

Certain tag programs allow you to insert jpg images into MP3's, usually for the purpose of showing cover art and so on, if you have a show cover art plugin for Winamp, then any mp3's you play that have embedded images will show them in whatever window the plug uses

Image insertion into mp3 is an ID3V2 tag standard feature.
http://www.id3.org/easy.html

The ID3v2 tag is a container format, just like IFF or PNG files, allowing new frames (chunks) as evolution proceeds.
Residing in the beginning of the audio file makes it suitable for streaming.
Has an 'unsynchronization scheme' to prevent ID3v2-incompatible players to attempt to play the tag.
Maximum tag size is 256 megabytes and maximum frame size is 16 megabytes.
Byte conservative and with the capability to compress data it keeps the files small.
The tag supports Unicode.
Isn't entirely focused on musical audio, but also other types of audio.
Has several new text fields such as composer, conductor, media type, BPM, copyright message, etc. and the possibility to design your own as you see fit.
Can contain lyrics as well as music-synced lyrics (karaoke) in almost any language.
Is able to contain volume, balance, equalizer and reverb settings.
Could be linked to CD-databases such as CDDB.
Is able to contain images and just about any file you want to include.
Supports enciphered information, linked information and weblinks.
and more... (a complete list of all frames and their functions can be found here)

[ryan]

It dosen't exactly crash winamp but if I play the song and try and change songs or when the song ends, it locks winamp up.

and I believe 4 ostriches can milk a cow.

[Psythik]

ID3v3? I didn't even know it existed. I'm guessing Winamp crashed because I think it only has support for up to v2.

[fwgx]

I said horse idiot!

[Psythik]

lol

[Vie]

I once ended up with 3 of my songs mixing together, one ontop of each other.

The file kept changing bitrate (Non VBR file wich confused me) and the song kept changing sise as well. weird no?

[ryan]

erm.. I meant v1 and v2 not v2 and v3