On Feb 28, 2011, at 18:22, Andrew Watts 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 Looks like this: http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=114 Are you on PowerPC or Intel? Could be an endian issue.