[PD] readanysf~, a beginning

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, august wrote:

> 	a) is there any good way to tell if a file is an mp3 or not
> other than to check the file ending for ".mp3"  ?  I can check if it
> has an "ID3" tag at the header, but most mp3's dont seem to have this.

files without the ID3 are detected by /usr/bin/file as MPEG 1.0 Audio
Layer 3, which is what an MP3 is. Look in "/usr/share/misc/magic" and "man
5 magic" for details.

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