I just had a funny experience that I thought others might like. I recently downloaded what I thought was a RAR file containing some MP3s. I soon realized that was not the case.<\/p>\n
I checked the file with a hex editor to try to determine what the file type was but could not find any discernable signatures with which to identify it.<\/p>\n
On a whim I renamed the 64MB .RAR file to .MP3 and dropped it into XMPlay. Lo and behold I could hear music\u2014albeit rather garbled. I put it aside for a few days thinking I’d try and figure it out later.<\/p>\n
Last night I tried renaming and dropping other file types into XMPlay to see what the results were (WAV, EXE, etc.) but they did not do the same thing. I then tried dropping the renamed RAR file into WMP to see if it could play it like XMP did but was surprised to see video playing (and clear audio).<\/p>\n
It turned out that the file was an MPEG video\u2014surprise, surprise, a porn video; not even close to what I hoped it was\u2014with MPEG-1 video and (44100Hz, 224KB\/s, Stereo, 6:27, MPEG-1, Layer 2) audio.<\/p>\n
I guess it sort of makes sense that XMPlay was able to play the audio part although XMP displayed little information about the file (just that it was 44100Hz). MP3-Info gave more information although other than the frequency it was all wrong (44100Hz, 160KB\/s, Stereo, 56:10, MPEG-2.5,Layer -).<\/p>\n
It was annoying to not get what I was hoping for but it was still a fun learning experience. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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