file not recognizing MP3 files?

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 19:22, 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:

I'm running 10.6.6, but the same version of "file" and don't see an issue.

Try:
> file -l | grep ID3

and:
> file -l | grep MPEG

I see:
> Strength =  60 : Audio file with ID3 version 2 []

and:
> Strength =  70 : MPEG ADIF, AAC [audio/x-hx-aac-adif]
> Strength =  71 : MPEG sequence [video/mpeg]
> Strength =  70 : MPEG transport stream data []
> Strength =  51 : MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1,  32 kbps [audio/mpeg]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG-4 LOAS [audio/x-mp4a-latm]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, AAC [audio/x-hx-aac-adts]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, layer III,  v2.5 [audio/mpeg]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, layer I, v2 [audio/mpeg]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, layer II, v2 []
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2 [audio/mpeg]
> Strength =  50 : MPEG ADTS, layer II, v1 [audio/mpeg]

Have you tried reinstalling 5.05?

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