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Tools for Manipulating MPEG Headers?
mattjarvis asks: "Does anyone out there know of a software solution for batch manipulating MPEG file headers, ie. stripping the header and replacing it with another header, or editing the existing header. I've searched the usual places, and have come up with a few libraries that look like they are capable of doing this but I don't seem to be able to find anything already written to do this. Basically I have a client using a hardware MPEG audio recorder, who wishes to change one of the bits in the header ( the original/home bit ) which is causing some problems with other software they are using. Surely this should be relatively simple to achieve and it's possible that I am missing the obvious but there doesn't seem to be anything available open source or not to easily edit the header without reconverting the actual audio stream."
here is all the information you should need. I used it myself when making a mp3-inspecting program.
Is this a "copyright" bit? (Like the bit set when you make a digital copy of a minidisc?) If so, be careful if you release this program, or you might run into problems similar to my own bit-flipping software !