On 13 Nov 2005 Reinhard Nissl rnissl@gmx.de wrote:
Simon Baxter wrote:
Very Best Of Supertramp/cover.jpg.mpg mad: lost sync 03334449 00000000 ID3^C mad: skipping over ID3 tag
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I too get the lost sync message, but the images still appear perfectly. Strange is that I don't get this message for any mp3 file from my brother's library. I know that there are several versions for mp3 tags, so either libmad doesn't understand the version your software creates or your software simply does it wrong. But I'm no mp3 expert ;-)
The "lost sync" message means that the mp3 decoder has detected something in the stream, which can't be decoded. This can be a ID3 tag but some other garbage too. The next message "skipping over ID3 tag" means that a ID3 tag was recognised.
The messages are not related to the image processing in any way.
You don't have to worry about these messages unless you get tons of header/decode errors after a lost sync.
Regards.