[Tutor] OT: any good newsgroup or other forum for MP3 internals discussions?

[Hugo González Monteverde]

Terry Carroll wrote:
> I apologize for this off-topic question -- the only real connection to 
> Python is that I'm using Python as my programming language.
> 
> I'm writing a program to analyze an MP3 file's contents.  I need to 
> find a newsgroup or other forum to ask some questions about file 
> format internals.  Nothing's jumping out at me, looking through the 
> list of usenet newsgroups.
> 
> I've found dozens of sites with relevant specifications, but am looking at
> one or two rogue files where either I'm misunderstanding the specs, or the
> file is nonconformant (but some MP3 programs can read them, so I'm betting
> it's me).

Are you using any kind of prefabricated Python module for this? Maybe 
their implementation of MP3 tagging is enlightening to you.

Remember that ID3 in MP3 was a dirty hack at the beginning, so it is 
likely that may files are nonconformant or that many different programs 
simply follow their gut, as there was no specification.

Hugo