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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:54AM (#41848621)
> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead.

Pack, or re-encode?

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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by LarsAlereon on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:25AM (#41848974)
As I recall, it was wasn't decompressed, the MP3 data was written into a WAV file with a RIFF header. There were situations where you had a decoder available, but couldn't get your app to recognize that MP3 files were audio.
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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by dzidol on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:32AM (#41849045)
Pack. WAV doesn't need to store header and raw PCM data (which it usually does though), it's just a container.
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