file not recognizing MP3 files?

[Andrew Watts]

I just tried uninstalling & reinstalling 5.05, and I'm getting the
same behavior.  I get identical results to yours from the "file -l"
commands.

Curiously, it's also not recognizing binaries (like its own) as Mach-O
executables.  file `which file` is giving me "data".

It does recognize things like M4A and WAV files, as well as JPEGs / PNGs.

Could it be a 32-bit / 64-bit issue?

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> arno  s  hautala    /-|   arno at alum.wpi.edu
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