file not recognizing MP3 files?

[Andrew Watts]

Bumping the version back to version 5.04 (r75061) fixes this problem.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Andrew Watts <ahwatts at gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that version 5.05 of file is not recognizing MP3 files.  On
> my mac, running 10.5.8, I get this:
>
> andrew at drbernice ~ $ file nanana.mp3
> nanana.mp3: data
> andrew at drbernice ~ $ file --version
> file-5.05
> magic file from /opt/local/share/misc/magic
> andrew at drbernice ~ $ md5 nanana.mp3
> MD5 (nanana.mp3) = 489c7353b240310bf549a5479d44a79a
>
> On a machine running FC10, I get this:
>
> awatts at elton ~ $ file nanana.mp3
> nanana.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo
> awatts at elton ~ $ file --version
> file-4.26
> magic file from /usr/share/file/magic
> awatts at elton ~ $ md5sum nanana.mp3
> 489c7353b240310bf549a5479d44a79a  nanana.mp3
>
> (I include the MD5 just to demonstrate that it's the same file).
>
> It's not just this file; it's not recognizing any MP3 on my machine.
> It does recognize ID3 tags, but not the MP3 data that follows them.
>
> Any suggestions?
>