MP3 Layer-1 decoding

[Siekmanski]

I'm busy extracting all mp3 info from mp3 files and calculate all info needed to decode a mp3 file.
Has any of you guys an example of a "layer-1" mp3 file for me?
Then i can check it in my sources and see if i did the calculations properly.
Sorry no sources this time, it's not finished yet.

If you want to check other mp3 files, just rename the file to test.mp3
The mp3 file will be decoded and saved as sounddata.wav

[ragdog]

Hi fine

For other good example about Mp3 layer or id3 have i found on asmcommuntiy.net for a long time

But your is nice

Greets,

[dedndave]

let me see if i can find one, Marinus :t

[Siekmanski]

 
That would be great, googled for it and only found one example of a 1 second file which didn't decode....

[dedndave]

so - is it the ID marker at the beginning ?
would it be ID1 ?

is that your voice ?   

[dedndave]

i found a converter - you can convert sound files to MP1

http://www.winsite.com/Audio/Rippers-Encoders/QUICK-All-Audio-Converter/

and another

http://www.winsite.com/Audio/Rippers-Encoders/ALO-Power-Audio-Converter/

[dedndave]

http://trac.ffmpeg.org/raw-attachment/ticket/1718/M4A_MP1_288Kbps_CBR_44.1KHz_2ch.m4a

it says it's an M4A file
but MediaInfo tells me that the sound format is MPEG format version 1, layer-1

what you might also find are some older MPEG movie files with MP1 formatted sound track

[dedndave]

as a note of interest, i came across this sound library.....

http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html

[dedndave]

i am guessing the M4A file is a container
you can probably extract the sound track with some simple file manipulation

[Siekmanski]

Thanks Dave,

That's not my voice.... 
The M4A file is an other format.
I know that BASS library but i like to try it myself and learn something on the way.
It's just for fun to use the mp3 codec but i need to feed it with the proper info of the mp3 files.
Layer-1 is the only one which i don't have and i need one to examine it so i can play all types of MP3 files in my program.
Tried several converters but non of them create a layer-1 file.

[Siekmanski]

Found a MP3 Layer-1 file and it turns out my calculations were properly done.
Not that i need it in my source code, but i just wanted to know......
I'm going to use Fraunhofer ACM codec which only supports Layer-3 MP3 files.
So Layer-1 & Layer-2 can not be played, i first didn't noticed that........

[dedndave]

you have a reason for not using a different codec ?

[Siekmanski]

Not really, but Fraunhofer codec is already present on windows.
No other libs needed to play mp3 or encode to mp3.
And you can activate "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (professional)" if windows\system32\l3codecp.acm is present.
It allows us to encode up to 320 Kbps.