I was told by an Fraunhofer engineer that the only way to possibly get gapless mp3s is to find a RIFF-mp3 encoder and a program capable of decoding riff-mp3 files. Does anyone know what riff is?

Sean

Guess not.

Sorry, I was hoping to see someone else reply to this thread, since I am deeply interested in the answer as well.

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Tony Fabris

Riff is a header that allows windows to interpret mp3s as a wav file. It requires a fraunhofer codec to be installed for it to work correctly. Havent learned much more than that yet.

Sean

A RIFF file is just a sort of tagged file thing for Multimedia stuff, rather like a TIFF is for images. WAV files _are_ RIFF files. If you put an MP3 file inside a RIFF file with the right header then you get a WAV file that is actually an MP3 file. Other compression mechanisms are also used. This is why you need to have the right codecs installed to play certain WAV files.

I believe that Windows comes with a codec from Fraunhofer that plays MP3 inside WAV files. You can probably find it in Control Panel.

WAV is not synonymous with PCM.

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)

A RIFF file is just a sort of tagged file thing for Multimedia stuff, rather like a TIFF is for images. WAV files _are_ RIFF files.

As are AVI files. This is why you need to download different codecs for AVI as well. Fortunately, Media Player does this semi-automatically.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg

Yup they ^^^ all right, u can encode wav-RIFF in mp3producer pro, mail me if u want it.

Magsy